Published in Astronomy & Astrophysics, two new studies present an in-depth analysis of the planet Beta Pictoris b's ...

Astronomers have long struggled to capture the true nature of stellar nova explosions. However, thanks to cutting-edge techniques, a team of scientists has finally been able to observe these cosmic ...

Microlenses have many applications, such as coupling light into fiber optics, enhancing light source uniformity in microdisplays, and focusing light onto imaging sensors in mobile phone cameras.

Strongly correlated quantum systems can exhibit exotic behaviour called topological order which is characterized by non-local correlations that depend on the system topology. Such systems can exhibit ...

The Event Horizon Telescope has accomplished what no other telescope or telescope array has ever done: imaged the event horizon of a black hole directly. A team of more than 200 scientists using data ...

Exail, a global company focusing on photonics and quantum technologies, has delivered three of it Absolute Quantum ...

It is useful for expanding the effective aperture of the interferometer, in one axis. The measurement area is around the same size as the beam when a laser interferometer's round measurement beam ...

Manufacturing a precision surface requires a balance between satisfying the optimum quality requirements at the minimum cost. Steve Martinek summarizes the challenges of increasing the precision ...

This image compares data from two Iceye Synthetic Aperture Radar images. Changes in the vertical height of the surface appear black. Areas without changes are depicted in white. Credit: Iceye SAN ...

Grating-coupled interferometry (GCI) is a surface based, a label-free optical sensing technique used for real-time binding kinetic measurements. 1 Typically, GCI is used to detect binding events ...

University of Illinois Physics Professor Paul Kwiat and members of his research group have developed a new tool for precision measurement at the nanometer scale in scenarios where background noise and ...