Modulator with a garnet crystal may improve communication between room-temperature electronics and cryogenic supercomputers.
After a brief interruption, Mykola Kabluka and his team at Ukraine-based Expolight are once again finding a way forward with light.
The company will build technology to improve satellite communications for the US government’s defense program.
Study suggests women and men working together are more effective than single-gender research teams.
A must-have book for university libraries with helpful problems and solutions.
Double rainbow with a backdrop of the New York City skyline.
Amid post-Brexit political turmoil, the British government lays out alternatives to participating in the EU’s big Horizon Europe research-funding program.
The heterostructure made of alternating layers of two refractory minerals reflects infrared light.
The innovation relies on tailor-made coatings added to quantum well diodes.
In a new feature, OPN highlights works by eight artists inspired by light—and its ability to transform the world around us.
Researchers analyze the cost of having a single universal scientific language and recommend tools for breaking down linguistic barriers.
OPN talks with three scientists involved in an Optica-led effort that puts optical sensors to work in the battle against both local pollution and global climate change.
The Soyuz MS-15 spacecraft ascending into space after its launch from Kazakhstan on Wednesday, 25 September 2019, photographed from aboard the International Space Station.
Accidental exposure to a single direct or reflected laser beam can cause irreversible damage to the human eye—depending on the wavelength, output and exposure duration.
Since the laser’s first demonstration in 1960, scientists have worked to expand the range of wavelengths the devices can emit.
A researcher talks about following your passion rather than material things.
A professor talks about the benefits of international work.
A researcher talks about being an independent woman and mother in academia.