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Image of the Week: Droplet on FP Cavity
Optical image of a fabricated MDM Fabry–Pérot cavity with water droplets placed on its surface.
Read more here: bit.ly/3Uj2QCf
25 years ago Flagstaff became the world’s first International Dark Sky City.
Now, scientists, lighting designers and dark-sky advocates are showing how better optics can help reverse the spread of artificial light at night. bit.ly/4imFWGn
ALT A person stands near a tall rock formation in a desert under a vibrant, arched Milky Way galaxy. The night sky is filled with stars, displaying colors from green to purple.
Artificial light at night can have a negative effect on both plants and animals.
Check out OPN's latest infographic to see some of the ways light disrupts nighttime behaviors: bit.ly/4z0Q9hJ
ALT Silhouettes of two people against a blurred cityscape at night, featuring colorful lights and skyscrapers.
A new optogenetic therapy restored partial vision in blind patients.
The researchers believe that the findings from this early-stage study provide the foundations for developing more sensitive and effective optogenetic therapies.
Read the OPN story: bit.ly/4B95vCi
ALT A digital illustration of a virtual human head with circuit patterns. The head is interacting with a pair of high-tech glasses featuring circuit designs. A strand of DNA is shown overlapping the side of the head, creating a futuristic, technological theme.
A new type of self-aligning frequency comb has the potential to bring the technology to mass-market chip-based products and find applications in compact devices for navigation, timekeeping and sensing.
Read the OPN story: bit.ly/4ye2FsV
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"Laser sales for optical #communications are going through a once-a-generation expansion from investments in #AI data centers." -Tom Hausken
Check out OPN's latest Market Report for a zoomed-in look at the #laser market: bit.ly/4hQZTnq
Is thin-film lithium niobate becoming the modulation engine of the next era of optical interconnects?
OPN's October feature "TFLN: Reliable Performance at Scale" explores this platform and the place it could hold in the future of co-packaged optics. bit.ly/4ignI9t
Laser manufacturer LITILIT announced it is building a new automated femtosecond-laser factory in Vilnius.
The company plans to ramp up annual production capacity to as many as 3,000 systems over the next few years.
Read the OPN story: bit.ly/4zqhZDX
ALT A person stands in front of a wall with the Litilit logo, wearing glasses, a black jacket, and a black shirt.
Researchers developed an ultrathin metasurface platform that may enable greater flexibility for reconfigurable nonlinear signal processing and adaptive photonic computing.
Read the story: bit.ly/4dyrKHM
"One of the best ways to accelerate your growth is surprisingly simple: bring possible solutions, not just problems."
OPN's October Career Focus features Caroline Boudoux's story of becoming a researcher.
Check it out: bit.ly/4ibVdK3
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In the latest installment of Journeys in Optics, OPN spoke with Thomas Luhmann about his career in photogrammetry, founding an institute at his university, writing and collaborating on a successful textbook and advice for early-career researchers. bit.ly/4iduo7p
New work shows how a shaped and focused light beam can control magnetic bits in multilayered materials with no external magnetic field.
The study could lead to optical switches more than three orders of magnitude faster than magnetic ones. bit.ly/4ASAmmz
A new digital-optical processor can accurately detect deepfake videos when analyzing 15+ videos simultaneously.
The high-speed and scalable system offers a robust and efficient solution for content providers to identify AI-generated visual media. bit.ly/4AOQwgy
Excimer #lasers made their debut 50 years ago. Today, they remain vital tools in vision correction, semiconductor #lithography and #display #manufacturing, with #fusion research on the horizon.
Check out OPN's October issue feature article for more! bit.ly/4j37xNK
Image of the Week: Snowflake in Phase
A melting snowflake is shown as a quantitative phase map in which color encodes the optical path length of light through the crystal, proportional to its thickness.
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#NobelPrize winners Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann & Georg Nagel laid the foundation for #optogenetics.
Beginning with the study of algae, this field supplied a molecular tool for manipulating neurons in mammals, creating opportunities to map the brain: bit.ly/4dOsGru
ALT Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel
Startup Singular Photonics launched a single-photon avalanche diode (SPAD) image sensor they say is the first capable of supporting simultaneous intensity, timing and histogramming modes.
Read the OPN story: bit.ly/4yfUXyN
Optical fiber manufacturer Lightera announced it plans on tripling submarine optical fiber production by 2029.
To make that happen, the company is making a significant capital investment to expand its fiber manufacturing operations in Denmark and the US. bit.ly/47A2TzD
Researchers found a new scheme they believe could make it easier to scale up #quantum #computers and networks.
The work leverages heterogenous integration to seamlessly combine diamond quantum emitters with a titanium dioxide chip.
Read the OPN story: bit.ly/3VJVATo
Ahead of his Frontiers in Optics + Laser Science (FiO LS) plenary talk, Alexander Gaeta spoke with OPN about innovations in frequency combs that are leading to the commercialization of the technology.
Check out the interview for a sneak peek of his talk: bit.ly/4iUdc8L
