Reducing wavelength of light could allow it to be selectively absorbed/emitted by semiconductor, promising better solar cells, tunable emitters.

University of Adelaide device could be used in health care, environmental monitoring and control of contamination.

Yale uses light-sound interactions to create strongest amplification mechanism in silicon - promising new types of lasers.

KAIST (Korea) proposes caesium-gold-iodine variant to overcome stability and toxicity problems of earlier perovskite structures.

Wide-band, high-resolution, 100 million frames-per-second imager under development for UK’s new Rosalind Franklin Institute.

Ruhr-University Bochum platform based on QCL source allows label-free classification of cancer tissues.

In a few years, this device will be bought by water distribution companies, water authorities and related bodies.

China project injects incident light into silicon disks through directly connected waveguides.

Imec's surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy process could also be used in chemical and biological sensing.

Barcelona-based group says understanding mechanism will boost graphene-based light detectors.

Work towards optical satellite navigation system shows independent operation of diode laser setup and optical frequency comb.

Applications in low-tech environments for diverse diagnostics and biomedical sensing.