£4.5m Strathclyde-led project will offer benefits ranging from academic research to medicine and industry.

European consortium to develop basis for “greener, more innovative and efficient solar cells” over next three years.

Interference of local electromagnetic field delivers six-fold improvement in axial resolution with no increase in laser power.

Hybrid device under development at ICFO could offer low-cost, high-efficiency operation.

Stanford team including Nobel laureate William Moerner modulates laser polarization to probe structure of individual DNA strands.

DIMENSION project forms complete value chain for integrated optical circuits with active photonics.

Research into hollow core optical fiber to enable more data, higher power and lower losses.

Finnish research center says pain-free stomach bug isotope analysis has other medical applications.

Korean team says 'unprecedented' efficiency with flexible format could present genuine alternative to indium tin oxide.

Combination of silicon photonics and III-V laser source in coin-sized system could even end up on supermarket shelves, suggests principal investigator.

New photovoltaic and biochemical hybrid surpasses the natural efficiency of photosynthesis.

At a cost of €10,000, and with greater capability than conventional systems, the economy Raman scope will empower biomedical researchers.