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 ...

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

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

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

A tea bag’s thin plastic wrapper reveals polarimetric patterns when placed between a computer monitor and a polarized sunglass lens. The monitor acts as a polarization state generator, while the ...

In the latest installment of Journeys in Optics, OPN spoke with Thomas Luhmann, institute board member and professor for photogrammetry, Institute for Applied Photogrammetry and Geoinformatics, Jade ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Fifty years after their debut, excimer lasers remain vital tools in vision correction, semiconductor lithography and display manufacturing, with fusion research on the horizon. When they were first ...