Interaction between shortest light pulses and insulators promises electronic switching in the petahertz domain.

Treated fine membrane promises "nano-particle diagnosis" of patients with heart disease, cancer at an earlier stage.

SBIR Phase I grant to support white, high-efficiency OLED lighting development.

Researchers say prototype could be used in medicine, or lead to adaptable “in-eye” sunglasses.

Naval Air Systems Command awards $1 million for Raydiance to tailor its system for military applications.

Focusing on kesterites, Cu/Zn-based minerals, which promise economical, sustainable solar cells.

A structure built from thousands of polymer nanolayers produces a gradient of refractive responses within a single lens.

Research in Innsbruck suggests surplus heat can be recycled to power a quantum cascade laser.

Decoding the speckle pattern produced by an opaque scattering layer allows the object hiding behind to be imaged.

Novel sensor creates useful images from lowest level of photon interactions.

New FP7 consortium aims to accelerate the deployment of fast fiber-optic networks by simplifying installation.

The FP7 research program will design laser sources for use in biophotonics research and as clinical diagnostic tools.