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Metalens-based spectrometer fits on a chip
Compact new device could have applications in information security and processing
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Surface plasmon polaritons launched by nano-emitters are imaged in the near field
Tip-enhanced nanospectroscopy reveals quasiparticle standing waves
Microwave photons are entangled with optical photons
New scheme could improve superconductor-based quantum computers
Large metalenses are produced on a mass scale
Nanostamping is combined with photolithography to create flat optics
Concentrated solar reactor generates unprecedented amounts of hydrogen
Photoelectrochemical device also produces usable heat and oxygen and could be commercialized in the near future
Multicoloured light source gives compressive spectroscopy a boost
Device could be used in compact and portable instruments
Entangled light source is fully on-chip
Compact device could lead to practical sources of multiphoton cluster states
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Photonics West 2023
Avantes launches its new Pacto spectrometer
The Pacto has been tailored for the life sciences and biomedical industries
Detection technologies from the Tibidabo group
Tibidabo group companies outline their range of products designed for photon detection
Innovation in diamond applications from Element Six
Staff from Element Six outline the many thermal, optical and quantum applications of diamond
Tunable lasers and femtosecond lasers from Hübner Photonics
Hübner Photonics introduces the company's C-WAVE product family of tunable and laser light sources
MKS-Newport’s high performance optical filters
MKS-Newport introduces the ODiate high-performance optical filter line at Photonics West 2023
New fibre laser technology from NKT Photonics
NKT Photonics presents new fibre lasers for the quantum computing community
Vibration isolation products from Minus K Technology
Minus-K Technology showcases the company's range of passive vibration isolators
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Uncovering the physics inconsistencies of the ground-breaking Pink Floyd album cover
Perovskite solar cells reach new milestones for stability and efficiency
Three recent results highlight how the technology just keeps getting better
Silicon photomultipliers: gearing up for applications in gamma-ray astronomy
Silicon photomultipliers will provide a core enabling technology in the Cherenkov Telescope Array, the world’s largest and most sensitive gamma-ray observatory
Australian firm’s watery solution for solar power
A novel approach to the counterintuitive problem of solar farms receiving too much sunlight
‘More than Moore’: a glimpse at the future of computing
Available to watch now, IOP Publishing explores what lies beyond the era of Moore’s law, and to look at some of the technologies that could play roles in the computers of the future
Classic telescope design inspires new microscope objective
Device employs a spherical mirror and a correction plate to focus light and could be used to image whole organisms
Reconfigurable metasurface steers incoherent light in less than a picosecond
Research could benefit self-driving cars and virtual reality displays
Porotech showcases the power of materials science in full colour
Tongtong Zhu from UK firm Porotech reveals how its micro LEDs could transform the display industry
The ORCA-Quest camera with qCMOS technology from Hamamatsu
Hamamatsu introduces the ORCA-Quest camera at the APS March Meeting
‘Negative temperature’ thermodynamics is observed in a photon gas
Compression and expansion seen in optical experiment
Laser-printed electronics could create next-generation medical implants
Researchers have succeeded in directly printing three-dimensional conducting polymer structures inside a living organism
Twisted bowties created with continuous chirality
Bowtie-shaped nanostructured microparticles that interact with twisted light could find use in applications such as LiDAR, medicine and machine vision
Lithium niobate photonic integrated circuits create ultrafast tunable laser
New laser technology shows promise for use in continuous-wave LiDAR systems
Multimodal optical imaging ready to shine in the early detection of colorectal cancer
Europe’s PROSCOPE consortium exploits fibre-optic technologies in tandem with endoscopic delivery to diagnose colorectal cancer in its earliest stages. Joe McEntee reports
‘Trojan horse’ injection method enables ultracompact X-ray free-electron laser
A plasma wakefield accelerator equipped with an advanced electron injection method could help miniaturize X-ray free-electron lasers to a fraction of their current size
Ultrafast laser camera images combustion in real time
New device could shed fresh light on the processes that occur as hydrocarbons burn
Molecular photoswitch could help create better anti-cancer drugs
High-precision X-ray crystallography measurements examine how a photopharmacological drug binds to and releases from protein molecules
Nonlinear optics: we explore the science and its many applications
This podcast features two experts in nonlinear optics
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