The Irish mathematician and physicist William Rowan Hamilton, who was born 220 years ago last month, is famous for carving ...

An inventor banks on optical systems, design and prototyping and manufacturing services to solve problems. In Part 1 of a three-part video series, a patented light sensor plays a central role in ...

A nanoscale optical device has been developed that allows independent control over the intensity and phase of light. By ...

Quantum optics is a branch of physics that studies the behavior of light and its interactions with matter at the quantum level. It explores phenomena that arise from the quantum nature of light and ...

Avulux and Axon Optics have partnered to expand access to the latest light management lens technology for people with migraines, Avulux announced in a press release. Avulux lenses are clinically ...

Tyndall and Graham Bell are some of the scientists who laid the theoretical foundations for what would later become fibre ...

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Nano-optics, by bridging the gap between classical optics and nanotechnology, explores light at dimensions smaller than its wavelength. It leverages phenomena like plasmonics, near-field optics, and ...

Aldrans, Tyrol, June 2020 - Bartenbach’s interdisciplinary team this week announced the successful engineering of two unparalleled optic designs. Driven by the scope of the Repro-light project, “To ...

Commercial optical fibers generally carry light that’s invisible to the eye. The colorful ones shown here transmit visible light, demonstrating how fiber optics work. Credit: Shutterstock Whether ...

They distribute data and can separate cells from one other. But can they adequately light a room? Photos: Fiber optics lighting the way Michael Kanellos is editor at large at CNET News.com, where he ...