New Optical Switch Is Up to 1,000 Times Faster

The device can be switched between its two states a trillion times a second, which is up to 1,000 times faster than today's leading commercial transistors.

The most sensitive optics yet for space communications

The researchers' new concept demonstrates an unprecedented receiver sensitivity of just one photon-per-information bit at a data rate of 10 gigabits per second.

Robotic assembly of the world's smallest house

A French nanorobotics team has assembled a new microrobotics system that pushes forward the frontiers of optical nanotechnologies.

Metalens for controlling blurry vision created

Inspired by the human eye, researchers have developed an adaptive metalens that is essentially a flat, electronically controlled artificial eye.

New Technique Generates Free-Floating 3D Images

US Engineers have produced 3D images entirely out of light.

ARON ecosystem enables augmented reality without Wi-Fi

New platform, ARON, is a communications system designed to transmit real-world data via infrared light.

UK provides first advanced detector for world's largest X-ray laser

One of the world’s fastest detectors, capable of capturing images in billionths of a second, has been developed by the UK for use at the world’s largest X-ray laser, the European XFEL.

New femto-camera with quadrillion fractions of a second resolution

Researchers from ITMO University have built a setup for recording holograms of tiny objects like living cells with a femtosecond speed.

New 3-D display takes the eye fatigue out of virtual reality

A new type of 3-D display could solve the long-standing problem eye fatigue when using VR and AR equipment by greatly improving the viewing comfort of these wearable devices.

Controlling light at will: metamaterials will change optics

Engineers believe that continued advances in creating ever-more exotic and sophisticated human-made materials will greatly improve their ability to control light at will.