Scientists have unveiled a new way to capture ultra-sharp optical images without lenses or painstaking alignment. The ...

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

Harvard researchers have found that silica, long thought to lack the right properties for optical metasurfaces, can sometimes ...

Capasso himelf called the discovery “a counterintuitive breakthrough in nanotechnology.” He added, “We have demonstrated in ...

The 22 award recipients represent wide range of stellar achievements across light-based technologies. For pioneering work in ...

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Optics means "the scientific study of sight" or "the behavior of light," yet it is more commonly used to express the opposite: flagging deception and dishonesty. Optics most often generates victims, ...

SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics, awarded their Gold Medal to Maryellen Giger (pictured here with her team) for pioneering work in computer-aided diagnosis and image ...