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Detectors & Imaging
FIGURE 1. An echelle spectrograph disperses input light into multiple overlapping orders using a steep-blazed grating. A grism separates these orders perpendicularly and produces a 2D array of parallel spectra that are focused onto a CCD detector.
Optics
Advanced echelle gratings enable high-precision exoplanet detection
Spectroscopic measurements of radial velocity are an important tool for exoplanet hunting, and high-resolution gratings are a key enabling technology.
Oct. 9, 2026
Credit: Ill. Niklas Elmehed © Nobel Prize Outreach
2026 Nobel Prize in Physics winner Francis Halzen.
2026 Nobel Prize in Physics goes to Francis Halzen for IceCube Neutrino Observatory
Oct. 6, 2026
Credit: Arnaud Pele/LIGO Laboratory
UC Riverside and LIGO Laboratory researchers move a 40-kg LIGO mirror into position to test a prototype FROSTI wavefront actuator in vacuum.
Wide-aperture wavefront sensing from thermal imaging
Sept. 29, 2026
Credit: Abdoulaye Ndao et al.
Schematic of the group’s multilayer photonic device that integrates a laser-programmable Sb2S3 phase-change layer and an UV-patterned humidity-responsive hydrogel. Optical information is encoded within the Sb2S3 layer via reversible amorphous-crystalline transitions using focused laser pulses.
Optics
Optical data storage approach dynamically conceals/reveals images
Sept. 17, 2026
Credit: RCA Electro-Optics Handbook
FIGURE 1. Legacy Eleven Parameter Image Intensifier Nomograph.4
Optics
The lost art of nomography is reborn through AI
Sept. 15, 2026
Credit: Xavveo
Sven Otte, CEO at Xavveo.
Optics
Momentum story: Xavveo’s CEO Sven Otte talks production-ready silicon photonic chips for imaging radar
Sept. 14, 2026
Credit: X. Jiang et al., Commun. Mater. (2026); CC-BY 4.0
A 20 Euro bill photographed via conventional camera on left, and with its security feature revealed via NIR device on the right.
Tiny ‘upconverter’ turns invisible near-infrared patterns into visible green light
Sept. 3, 2026
Introducing the new CoolLED pE-10
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LED Illumination for Spatial Biology
Sept. 1, 2026
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Bio&Life Sciences
PODCAST: Meet Jennifer Kehlet Barton, University of Arizona
Following the Photons: A Photonics Podcast
Sept. 1, 2026
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