The 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine recognizes work at the crossroads of biology, genetics and optics and photonics. Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel [Images, left to right: ...
The rapid proliferation of realistic AI-generated content has created an urgent need for reliable and robust deepfake ...
Researchers overcame sunlight attenuation in water, charging lithium-ion batteries 10 meters below the ocean’s surface.
Lightera spun off from Furukawa Electric Group in April 2025, after Furukawa began integrating its global fiber and cable ...
One way to get around these problems is to realize heterogeneous integration: combining two different materials on the same ...
UK-based startup Singular Photonics has launched a single-photon avalanche diode (SPAD) image sensor that combines photon ...
While nonlinear optical processes, such as second-harmonic generation, are fundamental to integrated photonics, achieving wide-range electrical tunability within a truly nanoscale device has remained ...
Last year, researchers from the University of California, Berkeley, USA, manipulated the human eye to see a new color, which they called “olo” (see “A New Color Comes into View,” OPN, May 2025). Now, ...
Researchers in Switzerland and Germany have demonstrated an optical chip that delivers femtosecond pulses of laser light with energies above a nanojoule (Nature, doi: 10.1038/s41586-026-10517-4). The ...
An international team of researchers has developed a perovskite-silicon triple-junction solar cell that achieves a record certified efficiency of 30.02% (Nature, doi: 10.1038/s41586-026-10385-y). The ...
Researchers at Kobe University in Japan have created a nanostructured coating that creates vivid, glossy colors on complex 3D surfaces (Small Struct., doi: 10.1002/sstr.70600). Designed for real-world ...
An international group of scientists has developed a new type of silicon-based metasurface that can modulate mid-infrared light at very high speeds while achieving both high precision and large ...
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