Researchers leverage the versatility of liquid crystals to enable the dynamic modulation of a nonlinear platform.

The 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine recognizes work at the crossroads of biology, genetics and optics and photonics. Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel [Images, left to right: ...

The rapid proliferation of realistic AI-generated content has created an urgent need for reliable and robust deepfake ...

Converting salty ocean water to freshwater helps meet the growing human and agricultural demand for the latter, but the desalination process has harmful byproducts: carbon dioxide and highly condensed ...

Scientists in the United Kingdom have developed a new lidar technique that can measure absolute distances with micrometer precision by using a fully electronic system to detect the output from a pair ...

In the latest installment of Journeys in Optics, OPN spoke with 2025 Optica Ambassador Andrea Pacheco, a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellow at the Lambdalab team at the Politecnico di ...

At sunset, this cumulus cloud lit up like a giant jack-o’-lantern in the sky. Rayleigh scattering enriched the horizon with deep reds and oranges, while Mie scattering within the cloud’s droplets ...

Hyperscale cloud providers are driving the demand for high-capacity optical connectivity as they expand their AI and data center infrastructure. In response, optical fiber manufacturer Lightera, USA, ...

I pursued a Ph.D. in science because I love problem-solving, diving deep into how and why things work, and using knowledge to serve a broader social good. Yet during grad school, while studying the ...

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Integrated electronics reorganized the 20 th century. By learning to pattern and control the flow of electrons on a chip, the integrated circuit put billions—now trillions—of transistors onto a sliver ...

As Flagstaff marks 25 years as the world’s first International Dark Sky City, scientists, lighting designers and dark-sky advocates are showing how better optics can help reverse the spread of ...