Mantis shrimp are known to possess one of the most unusual and complex visual systems in the entire animal kingdom. Their ...

Netherlands-based EpoQ has won PhotonDelta’s 2026 Global Photonics Engineering Contest with a proposal to use integrated ...

A landmark result five years ago showed that optogenetic therapy had partially restored the sight of a single patient with an ...

Researchers have focused the attosecond pulses from the European X-Ray Free-Electron Laser (XFEL) through total-reflection optics to create record peak intensity ...

Hyperscale cloud providers are driving the demand for high-capacity optical connectivity as they expand their AI and data center infrastructure. In response, optical fiber manufacturer Lightera, USA, ...

The 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine recognizes work at the crossroads of biology, genetics and optics and photonics. Their work laid the foundation for the field of optogenetics, a method ...

Researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), USA, have developed a scalable digital-optical processor that accurately detects deepfake videos when analyzing 15 or more video ...

Scientists in the United States and the Republic of Korea have shown how to overcome the tricky problem of combining materials able to efficiently emit quantum particles with those best suited to ...

Traditionally, metasurfaces for nonlinear optical processes such as harmonic generation and frequency mixing are static, meaning their functionality is fixed after fabrication. Actively tunable ...

UK-based startup Singular Photonics has launched a single-photon avalanche diode (SPAD) image sensor that combines photon counting, timing, histogramming and on-chip processing on a single CMOS ...

In the ongoing quest to improve data storage, all-optical switching could be much faster and more energy-efficient than traditional external magnetic field switching. Limitations on the thickness of ...