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Briefs: Communications
This system can amplify a faint signal from a neighboring system even when that signal’s amplitude is as small as ten trillionths of a meter.
News: Photonics/Optics
A new tool for medical professionals may help shed light on tumors.
INSIDER: Materials
The future’s getting brighter for solar power. Researchers from CU Boulder have created a low-cost solar cell with one of the highest power-conversion efficiencies to date...
Application Briefs: Materials
With the recent boom in touch-based, polymer display substrates must be fingerprint-resistant.
Products: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Photodetectors, ultrafast lasers, energy sensors, and more.
Application Briefs: Photonics/Optics
Aspheric lenses greatly improve the performance and efficiency of a wide range of optical applications.
Briefs: Electronics & Computers
A liquid crystal elastomer can be programmed to exhibit controllable, dynamic behavior without the need for complex electronic components.
Briefs: Photonics/Optics
This method uses fiber optic probes for measurement of semiconductors, optical coatings, magnetic read/write heads, and precision machines.
Briefs: Data Acquisition
Applications include optical data transfer, infrared and night-vision systems, environmental sensors, and breath analysis for medical diagnosis.
Briefs: Manufacturing & Prototyping
A highly sensitive, CMOS-compatible, broadband photodetector was created by tailoring material defects.
Briefs: Communications
A team is exploring new materials for telecommunications and LIDAR applications.
Briefs: Photonics/Optics
Researchers described a new strategy of designing metamolecules.
Technology Leaders: Sensors/Data Acquisition
To reduce the increasing frequency of attacks, the ground-based Laser Aircraft Strike Suppression Optical System (LASSOS) has been developed by researchers from the MIT Lincoln Laboratory.
Technology Leaders: Photonics/Optics
Laser technology will remain at the forefront of tomorrow’s digital manufacturing processes.
Articles: Lighting
Here's what you'll need to know when you’re choosing an encoder for a motion control system.
Briefs: Materials
This imaging technique could impact optical communications and signal processing.
Products: Imaging
Perovskites
Goodfellow (Coraopolis, PA) recently announced a new range of perovskites, a group of materials that demonstrate great potential for optoelectronic applications. Perovskites have a unique and versatile crystal...
Briefs: Materials
These thin films hold great promise for solar cells and LEDs.
Blog: Test & Measurement
Editor Bruce A. Bennett shares his observations from SPIE Photonics West, including the emergence of LiDAR.
Blog: Sensors/Data Acquisition
See what caught Bruce A. Bennett's eye during Day 1 of Photonics West 2020 in San Francisco.
Briefs: Communications
The system provides three-dimensional imagery of potential threats at closer ranges.
Briefs: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Such machines, only a few tens of micrometers across, could be used in the human body to perform small operations.
Briefs: Semiconductors & ICs
The switch is a major new step toward building a computer that uses light instead of electricity to process information.
Briefs: Photonics/Optics
Fiber-optic cables could help scientists study offshore earthquakes and the geologic structures hidden deep beneath the ocean surface.
INSIDER: Imaging
Imagine a fleet of 100 Hubble Space Telescopes, deployed in a strategic space-invader-shaped array a million miles from Earth, scanning the universe at warp...
INSIDER: Photonics/Optics
Photovoltaics used in solar panels are sensitive to environmental factors and often suffer degradation over time. International Electrotechnical Commission standards for...
INSIDER: Photonics/Optics
Researchers have demonstrated a new all-optical technique for creating robust second-order nonlinear effects in materials that don’t normally support them. Using a...
Products: Lighting
Photopolymer films, LED light engines, measurement systems, and more.
Top Stories
Blog: Manufacturing & Prototyping
2025 Holiday Gift Guide for Engineers: Tech, Tools, and Gadgets
Blog: Power
Using Street Lamps as EV Chargers
INSIDER: Semiconductors & ICs
Scientists Create Superconducting Semiconductor Material
Blog: Materials
This Paint Can Cool Buildings Without Energy Input
Blog: Software
Quiz: Power
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