Researchers at Princeton and North Carolina State University have developed a technique that substantially improves the ...

An unexpected discovery in a Harvard lab has led to a breakthrough insight into choosing an unconventional material, silica, ...

Polarized light is one of the most powerful tools scientists have for peering inside matter, yet the way it twists, scatters and transforms inside real-world materials has long been treated as a black ...

Light can be sculpted into countless shapes. Yet building optical devices that can simultaneously manipulate many different ...

In a discovery that blurs the line between biology and technology, scientists have found that heart-shaped clams use fiber optic–like structures to channel sunlight through their shells in much the ...

Nano-optics, by bridging the gap between classical optics and nanotechnology, explores light at dimensions smaller than its wavelength. It leverages phenomena like plasmonics, near-field optics, and ...

Follow along as Machine Design interviews John Ellis, an entrepreneur, inventor and founder of Massachusetts-based engineering consulting firm Optics for Hire. The Optics for Hire team—a group of ...

The key to performance of LiDAR sensors and many other optoelectronic sensors lies in their optical system. No matter if automotive, industrial automation or safety and security is the application, ...