Researchers have shown that consumer-grade 3D printers and low-cost materials can be used to produce multi-element optical ...

Scientists have unveiled a new way to capture ultra-sharp optical images without lenses or painstaking alignment. The ...

Microscopy continues to transform the life sciences. Here are five recent breakthroughs made possible by the technique.

Currently, Kyocera’s technology enables aerial images whose focal positions vary by wavelength. In the future, increasing the ...

Researchers used consumer-grade 3D printers to create sub-$1 optical lenses that enable super-resolution nanoscale biological ...

This figure illustrates the result of distributed temperature sensing using a perfluorinated graded-index plastic optical fiber (POF). The top diagram shows the structure of the sensing POF, including ...

Terahertz (THz) radiation, which occupies the frequency band between microwaves and infrared light, is essential in many next ...

Optical computing has emerged as a powerful approach for high-speed and energy-efficient information processing. Diffractive ...

Machine vision systems are becoming increasingly common across multiple industries. Manufacturers use them to streamline quality control, self-driving vehicles implement them to navigate, and robots ...

ISE 2026 is quickly approaching. Before Fira de Barcelona welcomes thousands of visitors from Feb. 3-6, SCN asked several ...