Photonics Hot List: October 25, 2024

In this episode: IR light aids brain injury recovery, a team creates the world’s thinnest flat lens, and business pairs advance next-gen tech.

Justine Murphy

Oct. 25, 2024

Researchers in the U.K. are now working toward potential treatments for mild traumatic brain injuries using red and near-infrared light. Their approach could also someday be used to treat other injuries, such as those in the spinal cord or central nervous system.

Inspired by quantum mechanical exciton resonances of a 2D quantum material, physicists in Amsterdam have created the world’s thinnest flat lens that’s just 0.6 nm thick. This could someday prompt a new class of metasurfaces, as well as VR and AR glasses.

The U.S. Space Development Agency has announced it will join forces with Princeton Infrared Technologies for the development of an uncooled MWIR and LWIR imaging system. In other business news, TAU Systems is partnering with ELI Extreme Light Infrastructure and the University of Texas at Austin to ultimately generate multi-Giga-electron-volt electron beams for applications including radiography.

About the Author

Justine Murphy

Multimedia Director, Digital Infrastructure

Justine Murphy is the multimedia director for Endeavor Business Media's Digital Infrastructure Group. She is a multiple award-winning writer and editor with more 20 years of experience in newspaper publishing as well as public relations, marketing, and communications. For nearly 10 years, she has covered all facets of the optics and photonics industry as an editor, writer, web news anchor, and podcast host for an internationally reaching magazine publishing company. Her work has earned accolades from the New England Press Association as well as the SIIA/Jesse H. Neal Awards. She received a B.A. from the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts.