Photonics

Technology Uses ‘Single’ Approach to Develop Electronics, Acoustics

A Purdue University innovator has developed a new approach to creating popular thin films used for devices across a broad range of fields, including...

Researchers Capture First 3D Super-Resolution Images in Living Mice

Researchers have developed a new microscopy technique that can acquire 3D super-resolution images of subcellular structures from about 100 microns deep inside biological tissue,...

Modification of Graphene Using Laser Light

Graphene is an exciting new material, which has been characterized as a 'wonder material because of its excellent properties. Graphene gained widespread attention in...

Artificial Neural Network That is Energy Efficient

Training neural networks to perform tasks, such as recognizing images or navigating self-driving cars, could one day require less computing power and hardware thanks...

Researchers Develop First Self-Cooling Laser Made With a Silica Fibre

Researchers have toiled for years, unsuccessfully, in pursuit of a silica optical fibre that would cool itself when excited with infrared laser light. Such a...

Photonic Controlled Smart Materials to Twist and Bend

Researchers at Tufts University School of Engineering have created light-activated composite devices able to execute precise, visible movements and form complex three-dimensional shapes without...

Remote Control for Quantum Emitters

In order to exploit the properties of Quantum physics technologically, quantum objects and their interaction must be precisely controlled. In many cases, this is...

Seeing Both Sides of Light Collection

Two types of materials are better than one when it comes to solar cells, as revealed by an international team that has tested a...

Robots Learn Faster With Quantum Technology

Artificial intelligence is part of our modern life by enabling machines to learn useful processes such as speech recognition and digital personal assistants. A...

Optical-Resolution Photoacoustic Microscopy Innovation for Simultaneous Multicontrast Imaging

Optical-resolution photoacoustic microscopy (OR-PAM), a new hybrid imaging technique, allows us to listen to the sound of light and see the color of biological...

Spawning 3D Holograms Through Artificial Intelligence

Holograms have had always delivered an amazing representation of the 3D niche, offering a responsive and shifting perspective based on the viewer's position. Computer-generated...

Innovative Flat Optics will Usher the Next Technological Revolution

The King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia, introduced a new patented, scalable flat-optics technology manufactured with inexpensive semiconductors. The KAUST-designed technology...

Advance in Optical Tweezers To Boost Biomedical Research

Optical tweezers are used in biology, medicine and materials science to assemble and manipulate nanoparticles such as gold atoms. However, the technology relies on a difference...

Heat-Free Optical Switch Would Enable Optical Quantum Computing Chips

In a potential boost for Quantum Computing and communication, a European research collaboration reported a new method of controlling and manipulating single photons without...

Filming a 3-D Video of a Virus With Instantaneous Light and AI

It is millions of trillions of times brighter than sunlight and a whopping 1,000 trillionth of a second, appropriately called 'Instantaneous Light'—the X-ray Free...

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