Researchers leverage the versatility of liquid crystals to enable the dynamic modulation of a nonlinear platform.
The 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine recognizes work at the crossroads of biology, genetics and optics and photonics. Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel [Images, left to right: ...
The rapid proliferation of realistic AI-generated content has created an urgent need for reliable and robust deepfake ...
Fifty years after their debut, excimer lasers remain vital tools in vision correction, semiconductor lithography and display manufacturing, with fusion research on the horizon. When they were first ...
Integrated electronics reorganized the 20 th century. By learning to pattern and control the flow of electrons on a chip, the integrated circuit put billions—now trillions—of transistors onto a sliver ...
The 2026 Frontiers in Optics + Laser Science (FiO LS) conference will take place from 27 September to 1 October in Rochester, NY, USA. At the meeting, Optica Vice President Alexander Gaeta, David M.
During my first month as a Ph.D. student, a senior student in our group was preparing a presentation for an upcoming Optica meeting. He had led the work from the beginning and knew every detail. Then ...
As Flagstaff marks 25 years as the world’s first International Dark Sky City, scientists, lighting designers and dark-sky advocates are showing how better optics can help reverse the spread of ...
Lightera spun off from Furukawa Electric Group in April 2025, after Furukawa began integrating its global fiber and cable ...
Last year, researchers from the University of California, Berkeley, USA, manipulated the human eye to see a new color, which they called “olo” (see “A New Color Comes into View,” OPN, May 2025). Now, ...
Researchers at Kobe University in Japan have created a nanostructured coating that creates vivid, glossy colors on complex 3D surfaces (Small Struct., doi: 10.1002/sstr.70600). Designed for real-world ...
UK-based startup Singular Photonics has launched a single-photon avalanche diode (SPAD) image sensor that combines photon ...
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