Scientists have developed a novel method that dramatically enhances both the power and number of vortices, opening new ...

Optical addressing, a technology to focus and align individual addressing beams onto quantum particles, needs integrated, miniatured, and flexible focusing optical elements to realize precise ...

Coherent Corp. has announced the launch of its 2D Collimator Array, an innovative optical assembly designed for use in optical circuit switches (OCS), which are increasingly vital for advanced data ...

Optical vortices—light beams carrying orbital angular momentum (OAM)—are characterized by helical wavefronts and phase singularities. While they have been widely studied in recent decades, two ...

Recent advances in photonics are pushing the limits of data transmission, quantum hardware, and laser control. NASA’s Artemis II mission demonstrated scalable space-to-Earth laser communications, ...

In a lab at Osaka University, physicist Yoshiki Nakata and his colleagues fired a pulsed laser through a stack of three passive optical components and watched it shatter into 3,070 tiny, spinning ...

Caltech engineers have developed a new camera design that replaces the lenses with an ultra-thin optical phased array (OPA). The OPA does computationally what lenses do using large pieces of glass: it ...

Orderly fashion: random arrays reconfigured to spell out "CNRS". (Courtesy: T Lahaye) Researchers at the Institut d’Optique Graduate School at the CNRS and Université Paris-Saclay in France have ...

Engineers have built a new photonic switch that can control the direction of light passing through optical fibers faster and more efficiently than ever. This optical 'traffic cop' could one day ...

The MLX75306 is the Melexis 3rd generation automotive linear optical sensor array,including a 142 x 1 array of photodiodes, associated charge amplifier circuitry and a pixel data-hold function that ...