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05 Feb 26
ICFO enhances organic solar cell by optimizing fluorescence quantum yield

Favoring light emission instead of heat dissipation after light absorption.

04 Feb 26
CUNY metasurface turns infrared into steerable visible light

Nanoscale nonlinear device changes color and direction of light using a single surface.

04 Feb 26
Strathclyde deploys machine learning to design mirrors for high-power lasers

Plasma mirrors will cope with powerful lasers designed with “emerging ML framework”.

04 Feb 26
Stuttgart-Würzburg researchers develop novel single-photon source

“Record-breaking” photons at telecom wavelengths made available on demand.

03 Feb 26
LLNL tunes light intensity for precise control of 3D printing

Regulating crystallinity in thermoplastics opens new possibilities for advanced manufacturing.

28 Jan 26
UC Davis shrinks spectrometer for diagnostics and sensing

Surface-enhanced silicon photodiodes and AI combine to extend device's sensitivity, utility.

28 Jan 26
Monitoring greenhouse gases from space – by laser

LZH and partners developing hybrid-lidar approach as part of EU project HALLOA.

27 Jan 26
Optical atomic clock combines single-ion accuracy and multi-ion stability

Partnership between German PTB and Thai metrology institute NIMT creates clock based on ytterbium 173 ions.

27 Jan 26
Heriot-Watt University studies use of deep-UV for tissue ablation

EPSRC project investigates laser ablation as surgical technique beyond cornea procedures.

26 Jan 26
Tokyo group observes positronium beam as ‘quantum matter wave’

Matter-wave diffraction in short-lived electron-positron atom.

22 Jan 26
SPIE PW2026: CEA-Leti advances silicon-integrated quantum cascade lasers

Photonics West presentations compare three complementary hybrid laser architectures.

20 Jan 26
Photoacoustic and ultrasound imaging combine for clearer mapping of blood vessels

Keck School of Medicine and Caltech image both tissue and blood vessels simultaneously.

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