Nature is filled with remarkable visual phenomena created by microscopic surface structures that interact with light in ...

Designing surfaces that precisely control how light behaves at the nanoscale is tricky. Optical Fourier surfaces, which are ...

Independent publisher Counter-Print has released Optic, a new book on the history of optical illusions in graphic design and how this craft has developed over the years. The inception of Op Art came ...

Whether you are simulating a lens, an optical communications system or a car headlamp, optical software can help you reach the optimum design. Neil Savage takes a look at some of the latest packages ...

Optical instruments are how we see the world, from corrective eyewear to medical endoscopes, cell phone cameras, and orbiting cameras. In this online engineering specialization, you will learn to ...

The role of light in our lives is both pervasive and primordial. Ultraviolet light probably had a role in the very origins of life, and light-driven photosynthesis underlies all but the most primitive ...

Keysight Technologies (NYSE:KEYS) is adding support for GlobalFoundries’ silicon photonics process to its ADS Photonic Designer platform. The update enables combined photonic and electronic system ...

Cryogenics specialist Quantum Design has designed a magneto-optical cryostat that for the first time brings their high magnetic field and cryogenics technology into a dedicated optical environment In ...

The Oslo Optical Design Software guide is a basic optical primer and full set of step-by-step examples. Containing over 100 pages, the guide covers how to enter, analyze, and design optical systems in ...

OSLO for lens system design and optimisation and TracePro for modeling and analyzing the propagation of light in imaging and non-imaging optical and opto-mechanical systems. TracePro is our ...