Stanford engineers and colleagues designed a chip that can take a muddled mixture of light from multiple lasers and output ...

NTNU built OptoPatch, a circuit-free skin patch that a smartphone camera reads to track pulse and vascular stiffness. What is ...

A small mechanical squeeze changed magnetic behavior and electrical signals in manganese telluride and iron sulfide crystals.

Scientists have developed a new approach to X-ray imaging that captures significantly more light without sacrificing image ...

A continuous-wave laser study finds strong third-order nonlinear optical responses in MEH-PPV and PBDB-T polymer solutions, ...

An experimental graphene optical system uses red, green and blue light challenges, transformer-assisted image analysis and binary codes to create programmable hardware-based authentication responses.

Understanding instabilities and turbulence in plasmas is one of the key challenges across a wide range of plasma research ...

Light can carry considerably more information than simply its brightness, colour and direction. Scientists can engineer beams into intricate spatial forms, giving light additional properties that ...

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Scientists at the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) have developed a "light-powered brain" that can recognize hidden information in complex patterns of light, potentially paving the way for ...

University of Pennsylvania researchers have used a photonic chip to transfer a winding pattern in quantum light that survived noise even after entanglement disappeared, which they say could help ...