Optics has always been the most pure and the most applied area of physics. This is as true now as at any time in history. From Newton and his prism to the semiconductor lasers and optical fibres that ...

Researchers show how to control Dirac plasmon polaritons, paving the way for powerful terahertz photonic devices with faster, ...

A basic knowledge of what adaptive optics is and how it works is useful to a scientist, particularly if they are lucky enough to get some time on an adaptive-optic-equipped system. You can read ...

Physicists have demonstrated one of the quintessential effects of quantum optics -- known as the Hong-Ou-Mandel effect -- with microwaves, whose frequency is 100,000 times lower than that of ...

Photonics and optoelectronics are branches of science and technology that deal with the generation, manipulation, and detection of light (photons). While photonics focuses on the fundamental ...

The 2009 Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to Charles K. Kao, Willard S. Boyle and George E. Smith for breakthroughs in fiber optics and digital imaging.

In Cambridge, Mass, last week, members of the American Physical Society and of the Optical Society of America were given a first look at Massachusetts Institute of Technology's new spectroscopic ...

Research in quantum optics has already led to commercial technologies, but the gap between the lab and market products is still large. Looking from the industrial side, one can see ways of ...

In a major leap for artificial intelligence (AI) and photonics, researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles ...

The latest news on Optics and PhotonicsInfrared heavy-metal-free quantum dots deliver sensitive and fast sensors for eye-safe LIDAR applications The frequency regime lying in the shortwave ...