In a discovery that challenges conventional optics, scientists have managed to make a laser beam cast its own shadow—a feat previously thought impossible, as light typically passes through other light ...

Scientists in China have unveiled a new AI chip called LightGen that is 100 times faster and 100 times more energy efficient ...

Components of a typical laser include gain medium, laser pumping energy and resonant optical cavity. The output frequency of most lasers is fixed or within a small range, and it is difficult to ...

Engineering researchers report that they developed a new, efficient way to modulate and enhance an important type of nonlinear optical process: optical second harmonic generation -- where two input ...

A team of researchers recently developed an alternative way to break the Abbe diffraction limit and realize subwavelength imaging in an all-optical manner. They propose localized evanescent-wave ...

Teradyne Inc.’s assembly test division today introduced an optical process test (OPT) system for post-placement, inline defect detection and process measurement. The company said the non-contact ...

JDS Uniphase Corp., Ottawa, Ontario, has acquired Optical Process Automation Inc. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Headquartered in Melbourne, Fla., OPA also has operations in Asheville, N ...

Jenoptik is focusing in the metrology business. Jena, Germany -- Jenoptik has announced that it is selling its non-optical process metrology business for grinding machines to Marposs. Marposs is to ...