Metasurfaces Correct Color Blindness

17th March 2020 by Leave a Comment

New type of contact lenses to correct deuteranomaly, a form of red-green color blindness

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A Frequency Doubler Controlled by Light

7th January 2020 by Leave a Comment

Laser pulse creates frequency doubling in amorphous dielectric material

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Light Trapping with Nanocubes

2nd December 2019 by Leave a Comment

Plasmonic light detector could revolutionize multispectral imaging for cancer, food safety and agriculture

Filed Under: Cameras, Detectors, Imaging, Nano Optics, Nanophotonics, Optical Materials, Optical Sensors, Plasmonic, Research News Tagged With: , , ,

4D Imaging with Liquid Crystal Microlenses

27th November 2019 by Leave a Comment

“Self-assembled asymmetric microlenses for four-dimensional visual imaging”

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Strong Interaction between Light and Matter

24th October 2019 by Leave a Comment

Within a special cavity, a single photon is emitted and absorbed up to ten times by an artificial atom

Filed Under: Nano Optics, Nanophotonics, Optical Computing, Quantum Photonics, Qubit, Research News, Semiconductors Tagged With: , , ,

New Framework for Nanoantenna Light Absorption

1st October 2019 by Leave a Comment

To overcome the diffraction limit, the reseachers coupled photonic crystals with a plasmonic nanoantenna

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Measuring Nano-Structured Light Fields

24th September 2019 by Leave a Comment

Combination of nano-optics and organic chemistry measures complex light landscapes

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Smart Glasses Recognize Images without Any Sensors

12th July 2019 by Leave a Comment

Tiny bubbles and impurities embedded within the glass could bend light in specific ways to differentiate among different images

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A Compact Full-Stokes Polarization Camera

5th July 2019 by Leave a Comment

Portable polarization-sensitive camera could be used in machine vision, autonomous vehicles, security and atmospheric chemistry

Filed Under: Cameras, Detectors, Imaging, Lenses, Metamaterials, Nano Optics, Optical Materials, Optical Sensors, Optics, Photonics, Physics of Light, Research News, Sensors Tagged With: , , , ,

Optical Single-Electron Detector

12th February 2019 by Leave a Comment

A molecule is sensitive enough to optically detect an electron at a distance of hundreds of nanometers

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