From adaptive wearables to light-based signaling ideas, researchers are exploring what comes next The feathers of a ...

Researchers in Germany have unveiled an ultra-fast light switch that operates 10,000 times quicker than today's computing ...

Gemstones like precious opal are beautiful to look at and deceivingly complex. As you look at such gems from different angles ...

Researchers have reported a zero-dimensional metal halide that switches its fluorescence ON through two independent pathways: ...

The seamless integration of optical systems into medical devices presents both unique challenges and significant opportunities.

Light can be sculpted into countless shapes. Yet building optical devices that can simultaneously manipulate many different optical patterns at once is extremely complicated, and remains a major ...

A revolutionary AI chip from China just changed the game Developed by researchers from Shanghai Jiao Tong and Tsinghua University, LightGen is an optical computing chip that’s over 100 times faster ...

It may seem at times that there is a divide between the optical/photonic domain and the RF one, with the terahertz zone between them as a demarcation. If you need to make a transition between the ...

USC engineers have developed an optical system that routes light autonomously using thermodynamic principles. Rather than relying on switches, light organizes itself much like particles in a gas ...

A team of researchers at the USC’s (University of Southern California) Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering has designed what it calls “the first optical device that follows ...