Adaptive optics (AO) systems play a pivotal role in mitigating the deleterious effects of atmospheric turbulence and optical aberrations, thereby enhancing the resolution and imaging quality in fields ...

Lithium niobate (LN) powers a newly developed optical metasurface for shaping and guiding light waves. Leveraging the electro-optical effect of lithium niobate, the device applies different electric ...

New York, NY—May 8, 2023—Researchers at Columbia Engineering have developed a new class of integrated photonic devices--“leaky-wave metasurfaces”--that can convert light initially confined in an ...

Gravitational-wave detection technology is poised to make a big leap forward thanks to an instrumentation advance led by physicist Jonathan Richardson of the University of California, Riverside. A ...

A nanophotonic diffractive network performs morphological image processing, including dilation and erosion, purely through light propagation.

Australian-US team says wavefront-shaping of input light lifts power threshold for SBS scattering by an order of magnitude. A narrowband laser beam shaped by a spatial light modulator excites many ...

Astronomers are now creating 'artificial stars' using powerful lasers to overcome Earth's atmospheric distortions that blur ...

Christopher Bernard Mendillo, Ph.D. C. B. Mendillo, K. Hewawasam, J. Martel, T. Potter, T. A. Cook, and S. Chakrabarti, “Balloon flight demonstration of coronagraph ...

Micro optics assemblies are key components for manufacturing large-scale optoelectronic systems. They have the advantages of small size, light weight, and low cost, they can also achieve new functions ...