Time-Folded Optics for Streak Cameras

14th August 2018 by Leave a Comment

Time-of-flight camera is able to estimate the depth of the 3-D scene

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Precision Imaging Through Flames

13th August 2018 by Leave a Comment

A laser detection and ranging system can see 3D-objects melting in fires

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Twisting Light into Knots

6th August 2018 by Leave a Comment

Knotted polarization singularities endows a topological structure on the propagating wavefield

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Better Imaging Through Fire

26th July 2018 by Leave a Comment

Enhanced visibility through clean-burning flames allows new opportunities for optical metrology

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Adaptive Optics at VLT Excel Hubble

20th July 2018 by Leave a Comment

VLT has achieved first light with a new “laser tomography” AO mode

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A First of Its Kind Optic Isolator

17th July 2018 by Leave a Comment

First photonic device in which light advancing in opposite directions moves at different speeds

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Shaping of Terahertz Beams

12th July 2018 by Leave a Comment

3D-printing opens up a new way of constructing affordable custom terahertz components

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New Materials for 3D-Displays

9th July 2018 by Leave a Comment

New path to synthesize symmetry-based S- and X-shaped double hexahelicenes

Filed Under: Displays, Optical Design, Optical Materials, Optics, Photonic Crystals, Physics of Light, Research News Tagged With: , , , ,

Metasurface as an Optical Mixer

3rd July 2018 by Leave a Comment

First nanostructured material for broad mixing of light waves

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New Concept for Spectral Cloaking

2nd July 2018 by Leave a Comment

Alternative approach to invisibility cloaking could be used to secure data transmissions

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