The spectrum of laser technologies available to hackers has gradually widened from basic gas lasers through CO2 tubes, diode lasers, and now fiber lasers. One of the newer entries is the MOPA laser, ...

Controlling light at the micro- and nanoscale opens up opportunities for a better understanding of the world and the ...

Scientists have found a way to trap light in an extremely thin layer, potentially reshaping how future photonic devices are ...

Key applications include space research, EUV lithography for semiconductor manufacturing, and nuclear fusion research ...

A U.K.-Portuguese research group is proposing a new solar cell design based on diffraction gratings – optical components that split and diffract light into several beams. They claim this could lead to ...

Here’s a great picture from [Jelly & Marshmallows] that shows off the wild effects of melted chocolate poured onto a diffraction grating. A diffraction grating is a kind of optical component whose ...

Scientists from the Faculty of Physics at the University of Warsaw, in collaboration with research groups from the Łódź University of Technology, the ...

A research team has fabricated a subwavelength grating from an epitaxial molybdenum diselenide (MoSe2) layer roughly 42 ...