Industry News

ams Osram Sells Entertainment Lighting Unit

Stewart Wills | 28 December 2022

European photonics company says sale of Clay Paky business marks the last divestiture in its strategic re-orientation toward high-tech semiconductor and automotive-lighting sectors. read more  

Research News

2D Optomechanical Lattice Mimics Graphene Physics

Edwin Cartlidge | 28 December 2022

Tiny superconducting arrays of vacuum capacitors could shed light on optomechanical topology and yield entangled states. read more  

Industry News

Microsoft Buys Hollow-Core-Fiber Startup

Stewart Wills | 26 December 2022

Tech giant’s purchase of Lumenisity, a spin-out from the University of Southampton’s Optoelectronics Research Center, signals hollow-core technology’s prospects in cloud networks. read more  

Industry News

NIST and AIM Photonics Target Faster PICs

Stewart Wills | 24 December 2022

Agreement to devise and implement “calibration structures” for photonic integrated circuits could expand the design toolkit for advanced photonic chips. read more  

Research News

All-Optical Pumping of Nanolaser Arrays

Patricia Daukantas | 22 December 2022

Technique for optically driving closely spaced, tiny light sources could expand opportunities for packing lasers on photonic chips. read more  

Research News

A Wearable Patch to Monitor Hemoglobin

Meeri Kim | 21 December 2022

Soft device uses photoacoustic imaging for deep-tissue, 3D mapping of a key disease parameter. read more  

Conversations

Building the Optics for Laser Fusion

Stewart Wills | 19 December 2022

OPN talks with Tayyab Suratwala of the US National Ignition Facility about how optical innovation helped drive NIF’s recent, landmark result. read more  

Research News

Ultrathin, Printable Solar Cells for Additive Power

Sarah Michaud | 15 December 2022

Researchers use electronic inks to create lightweight and flexible organic photovoltaics that could turn nearly any surface into a power source. read more  

Research News

Ignition Accomplished, NIF Looks to the Future

Stewart Wills | 14 December 2022

Experiment showing a net gain in energy from laser-driven fusion is a monumental scientific achievement—but workable fusion power is still likely decades away. read more  

Research News

Lasers Begin to Reveal the Inner Workings of Solar Flares

Edwin Cartlidge | 14 December 2022

High- and low-power pulses provide evidence for magnetic phenomenon underpinning the intense eruptions. read more