Optics

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Adam Shaw, Anna Soper, Danial Shadmany, and Da Yeon Koh in front of the cavity array microscope apparatus.
Microlenses inside optical cavities allow physicists to tightly focus light onto single atoms in a way that’s both efficient and massively parallel—and it looks promising for ...
March 4, 2026
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Following the Photons: A Photonics Podcast
March 3, 2026
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Flinders researchers Dr. Sam Tonkin and Dr. Harshal Patel demonstrate a long-wave IR thermal imaging camera operating with the Flinders polymer lens.
Feb. 26, 2026
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FIGURE 1. Operating principle of a thermoelectric cooler based on the Peltier effect: When current flows through the semiconductor elements between ceramic substrates, heat is absorbed at the cold side and rejected at the hot side to create a controlled temperature differential across the device.
Feb. 25, 2026
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Following the Photons: A Photonics Podcast
Feb. 24, 2026
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Post-silicon validation.
Feb. 24, 2026
Credit: Shaghayegh Yaraghi
FIGURE 1. Conventional vs. resonance-free Fabry-Pérot cavity concepts: (a) A conventional cavity with its spectral response and (b) “resonance-free” cavity with its possible spectral response.
Feb. 18, 2026
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Following the Photons: A Photonics Podcast
Feb. 17, 2026
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Scintil’s LEAF Light addresses the fabric bottleneck in AI clusters by integrating multiple DWDM laser channels onto a single chip. Increasing bandwidth per fiber instead of fiber count enables higher edge bandwidth density and improved energy efficiency within copackaged optical architectures.
Feb. 17, 2026

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