At high power, laser light inside a multimode optical fiber is supposed to misbehave. The beam usually breaks into a noisy, ...

Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers discovered a paradoxical phenomenon in optical physics that could enable a ...

MIT researchers discovered a paradoxical phenomenon in optical physics that could enable a new bioimaging method that's ...

Light has always carried more than brightness. In this case, it also carries direction and twist. That mix may open a new path for storing far more data in the same physical space. A research team led ...

This study proposes a novel method to accurately estimate modulation amplitude and determine spatial resolution in BOCDR without additional devices. Brillouin scattering is the phenomenon of the ...

Large-aperture interferometers are important in the manufacturing and measurement of large-aperture optical elements, which play critical roles in the fields of optical precision manufacturing and ...

A novel type of silicon-integrated micro-laser, developed by scientists at Sandia National Laboratories, based in Albuquerque, NM, can be combined with other micro-scale optical devices. Its ...

CU Boulder postdoc Catherine Saladrigas is helping bring high-resolution imaging into miniature microscopes for neuroscience research. In a promising leap forward for imaging, Saladrigas and a team of ...

Researchers cracked the mystery of altermagnets, materials with no net magnetization yet strange light-reflecting powers, by creating a new optical measurement method. Their findings confirmed ...

A novel microscopy technique identifies malaria by aligning hemozoin crystals, enabling precise, and objective detection, and ...