Optics & Photonics

2+ hour, 50+ min ago   (471+ words) Nitride Global, a US developer of advanced thermal-management, dielectric, and semiconductor materials, will study a centimeter-scale quantum sensor designed to support navigation when GPS signals are unavailable. The Wichita-based company announced on September 14 that it had received an AFWERX Small…...

7+ hour, 50+ min ago   (644+ words) Ivy Delaney has been working with neural networks and machine learning since the mid-nineties, back when a couple of hidden layers and a long afternoon of training counted as ambitious. She has watched the field go from academic curiosity to…...

5+ hour, 53+ min ago   (20+ words) Ultrasonic sensors (like the HC-SR04) and infrared proximity detectors are common starting points for... Tagged with hardware, iot, python, tutorial....

9+ hour, 56+ min ago   (243+ words) Renishaw Launches XC100 for Higher-Accuracy Laser Calibration Metrology and Quality News Renishaw announces the launch of its new XC100 environmental compensator jointly at the IMTS 2026 and AMB 2026 exhibitions in Chicago and Stuttgart. The XC100 compensator builds on Renishaw’s proven XC-80 technology to deliver…...

2+ hour, 15+ min ago   (417+ words) The real question is no longer simply how fast optical modules can become. It is how we should define the computer itself when AI computing expands from a single GPU to tens of thousands—or eventually even more—accelerators operating…...

4+ hour, 9+ min ago   (356+ words) AI is now beginning to break that boundary. The most important message from Lumentum was not simply that AI will require more optical modules. Rather, it was that optics is evolving from a communication technology into a compute technology. When…...

9+ hour, 47+ min ago   (281+ words) Researchers at Princeton Engineering have created a semiconductor which is a few molecules thick and can repeatedly change its properties in response to light.. The researchers have created a uniform piece of the semiconductor that is 1-inch square. Next, they…...

14+ hour, 28+ min ago   (181+ words) DARPA launched a new program to manufacture tactical-grade optical clocks at scale. IonQ received a contract to scale production of its compact Evergreen-05 atomic clock. The technology aims to provide precise, GPS-independent timing for military operations. RF & Microwave INSIDER To…...

14+ hour, 48+ min ago   (535+ words) image: Infrared light from an object is converted to a visible image by a UCNP layer coated on a resonant TiO₂ metasurface. view more Credit: Nima Sefidmooye Azar New research led by the ARC Centre of Excellence for Transformative Meta-Optical Systems…...

21+ hour, 53+ min ago   (211+ words) Home » Science » Mathematical Shape Solving Decades-Old Puzzle Reveals New Optical Phenomena Researchers have unveiled an intriguing connection between a mathematical shape known as the “Smith hat,” celebrated for solving the long-standing “Einstein problem,” and unique properties in optical physics. This…...