• Optics

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    Virtual roundtable: What impact is China’s export ban on critical materials for optics having?

    Peter Fretty
    March 3, 2025
    Optics company leaders share their thoughts on the critical material export ban from China to the U.S., and how it is impacting optics manufacturers.
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    Natalie Fardian-Melamed in the lab working on a combo scanning probe—an inverted-optical microscope to explore single photon avalanching nanocrystal mechano-optics and photophysics. (Photo credit: William P.D. Hayes/Columbia Engineering)
    Test & Measurement

    All-optical nanoscale sensor of force changes intensity when pushed or pulled

    Sally Cole Johnson
    Feb. 27, 2025
    Researchers discover photon avalanching nanoparticles are supersensitive to mechanical force—and nanosensors they went on to create are poised to redefine what’s possible in terms...
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    FIGURE 1. The photonic integrated circuit (PIC) technology market. (Image credit: IDTechEx)
    Optics

    Photonic integrated circuit market to reach $54B by 2035

    Sam Dale
    Feb. 26, 2025
    IDTechEx shares technologies and trends emerging within the photonic integrated circuit market.
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    Podcasts

    PODCAST: Interview with Todd Haugen, Enablence Technologies

    Justine Murphy
    Feb. 25, 2025
    Episode 40 of Following the Photons: A Photonics Podcast features Todd Haugen, CEO of Enablence Technologies, a supplier of optical chips based on PLC technology.
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    Optics

    Optical filter sets feature steep spectral edges

    Newport, an MKS Instruments Brand
    Feb. 21, 2025
    ODiate optical filter sets are initially targeted at common fluorophores used in fluorescence imaging.

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    Optics

    Optically bistable nanocrystals?

    Sally Cole Johnson
    Feb. 20, 2025
    Scientists discover a robust and scalable nanomaterial can act as a binary optical switch or a tiny memory unit—and this all-optical process can be controlled to store information...
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    Optics

    VIS-NIR lens series features diffraction-limited design

    Excelitas Technologies Corp
    Feb. 3, 2025
    The LINOS inspec.x L 5.6/105 visible/near-infrared (VIS-NIR) lens series provides achromatic correction with broadband coatings from 400 nm to 1150 nm.
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    Light-based technologies at Nanyang Technological University ‘illuminate’ quantum computing

    Daphne Ng
    Jan. 27, 2025
    In this Q&A, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) researchers Professor Baile Zhang and Professor Leong Chuan Kwek share the inspiration and concepts behind...
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    Researchers at the University of Bonn’s Institute of Applied Physics—shown here (from left) Niels Wolf, Prof. Dr. Martin Weitz, Andreas Redmann, Dr. Frank Vewinger, and Dr. Julian Schmitt—have designed an approach that generates complex states of light.
    Optics

    ‘Super photon’ enables tap-proof communications

    Justine Murphy
    Jan. 23, 2025
    A new ability to generate complex states of light could hold the key to significantly more secure communications.
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    Estimated net decrease in U.S. gross domestic product at different levels of restrictions of China's net exports of gallium (a) or germanium (b) by industry.
    Optics

    Germanium and gallium supply chain disruption escalates for U.S.

    Sally Cole Johnson
    Jan. 20, 2025
    China bans exports of gallium and germanium, critical materials for optics and photonics, to the U.S.