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03 Dec 25
Photonic memory moves closer to practical deployment

Research builds on UW–Madison’s membership in AIM Photonics to advance system design.

02 Dec 25
Medical University of Vienna detects microplastics in the body's tissues

Optical photothermal infrared spectroscopy exploits thermal response of contaminants to illumination.

01 Dec 25
Researchers generate and detect ultrashort UV-C laser pulses at fs timescales

Nottingham and Imperial team say approach has applications in optical wireless, materials processing, and imaging.

27 Nov 25
Johns Hopkins University reveals details of brain's astrocyte cells

Low-coherence holotomography and nanowire substrate allow study of cells in their natural state.

26 Nov 25
ETH Zurich manufactures OLEDs at the nanoscale with ‘minute’ pixels…

…and Oxford discovers way to switch OLEDs to emit polarized light without altering light-emitters.

25 Nov 25
Rome-led group progresses toward practical photonic quantum neural networks

‘Simple adaptive method’ makes optical quantum processors behave like neural networks.

25 Nov 25
Purdue’s single-photon switch promises ‘terahertz-speed’ photonic computing...

...and KAIST’s efficient quantum process tomography enables scalable optical quantum computing.

24 Nov 25
German group to work to improve lasers with quantum computers

Trumpf, Fraunhofer ILT, and FU Berlin developing quantum algorithms to boost laser efficiency.

19 Nov 25
University of Tokyo scattering microscopy sees dynamic biological processes

Unifying detection of forward and backward scatter combines advantages of both approaches.

18 Nov 25
Stanford Medicine maps brain's fiber network at micron-resolution

Computational scattered light method offers new views of neurodegenerative disease.

17 Nov 25
Wavelength-dependent resin enables reversible 3D-printing

Under blue laser light, LLNL’s resin cures and solidifies; under UV, it degrades to liquid.

17 Nov 25
Joint Quantum Institute develops chip to turn one wavelength of light into many

For integrated photonics applications in metrology, frequency conversion, optical computing.

 
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