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
In this episode: A LiDAR and laser scanning combo illuminates caves, the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics goes to a quantum discovery, and an Edge AI-based hyperspectral imaging tech...
This paper reviews advances in precision motion control for photonics alignment and laser material processing, highlighting micro-hole drilling, new control algorithms, and hybrid...
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...
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 ...
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...
Congratulations to John Clarke, Michael H. Devoret, and John M. Martinis for their “discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunneling and energy quantization in an electrical...
Oct. 7, 2025
Credit: Thomas Linker/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
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 ...
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...
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...
Key dimmer parameters such as transmission range, dimmer color, uniformity, and reliability must be considered to ensure augmented reality (AR) glasses provide the expected quality...
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.