Using a state-of-the-art laser-assisted diamond-machining system, ULO Optics and LBP Optics are developing a unique class of lenses to fine-tune the laser-cutting process for industrial steels Laser ...

Given their tiny size, individual atoms are notoriously tricky to see and manipulate, but finding ways to do so would be extremely useful. The invention of the laser in the 1960s eventually led to the ...

Physicists and chemists at Heidelberg University have realized a photonic microchip that is driven by light just as easily as ...

Conventional curved lenses, which direct light by refraction in glass or plastic, are often bulky and heavy, offering only limited control of light waves. Metasurfaces, in contrast, are flat and ...

KYOTO, Japan--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Kyocera Corporation (President: Hideo Tanimoto; “Kyocera”)(TOKYO: 6971) announced that it has developed a new meta-lens that uses metasurface-based optical control ...

One of the best known properties of light is that it diffracts, bending or spreading around objects that lie in its path. A familiar example is when a collimated beam of light passes through a small ...

UNESCO's Active Learning in Optics and Photonics project is making the final preparations for its latest workshop to stimulate interest in optics in developing countries. Marie Freebody speaks to ...

A career in optical physics or engineering means knowing about the behavior and properties of light, including its interactions with matter and its detection by instruments. Since the discovery that ...

Biconvex lenses also known as double convex lenses are simple optical lenses with two convex spherical surfaces, surfaces which bulge out from the center. These two convex surfaces have the same ...

This project aims to develop a computational framework combining computer vision, computer graphics, and machine learning to accelerate and improve the design and simulation of camera lenses.