A new twist on a computational approach helps simulate warm dense matter—an exotic state that combines solid, liquid, and gaseous phases—and may advance laser-driven inertial ...
Project Background Avantier partnered with a leading scientific instrumentation company to design, produce, and supply High-Precision Infrared Objective Lenses. These custom optical...
Project Background: Large-Aperture Infrared Dome for Airborne Systems A defense industry customer approached us to evaluate the feasibility of producing a large-format infrared...
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...
Oct. 2, 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...
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...
Researchers combine an air-dielectric slab double-chirped mirror (DCM) and quantum cascade laser (QCL) to create a longwave-infrared (LWIR) frequency comb within a compact system...
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.