Today’s optics and laser technologies for the battlefield can see further to detect threats earlier—and respond to them faster to protect soldiers and vehicles, and ensure mission...
Credit: Helmholtz Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf/Science Communication Lab
Unlock the science behind the world's fastest data. From the photophone's dawn to modern WDM systems, master the core principles of fiber optics and future-proof your communication...
Project Background Avantier partnered with a leading scientific instrumentation company to design, produce, and supply High-Precision Infrared Objective Lenses. These custom optical...
Rabi cycling and filamentation at hard x-ray wavelengths is the building block for coherent control of quantum systems and opens new experimental capabilities centered around ...
Chips are akin to optical mazes, in which photons can scatter or never reach their destination. But researchers just created a gamechanger “photonic crystal highway” design to...
Lithium niobate photonic circuits move into the terahertz domain—and may enable devices for ultrafast telecommunications, spectroscopy, computing, and ranging.
‘Temporal symmetry breaking’ marks a paradigm shift in active photonics. By enabling ultrafast control over light-matter interactions within metasurface resonators, it paves the...
At University of Edinburgh spinout Singular Photonics, we’re redefining single-photon avalanche diode (SPAD) technology by building sensors that integrate computational intelligence...
Optical metasurfaces can control light by leveraging chirality—difference of a shape from its mirror image or its ‘handedness’—and it can be tuned via polarized light as a simple...
The Z-Trak Express 1K5 3D laser profiler series delivers high-speed 3D inspection with real-time processing.
Oct. 12, 2025
Credit: D. Antón, J. Mayoral-Valsera, M. D. Simón-Vallejo, R. Parrilla-Giráldez, and M. Cortés-Sánchez, J. Archaeol. Sci., 181, 106330 (Sep. 2025); https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2025.106330; Licensed under CC BY 4.0
La Pileta Cave is one of Europe’s most revered rock art sites, and researchers created a 3D replica of its morphology via iPhone light detection and ranging (LiDAR) and a terrestrial...
Episode 70 of Following the Photons: A Photonics Podcast features Ifor Samuel and Andrea Di Falco, professors and researchers at the University of St. Andrews.