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SPIE Can #spacetime be distorted in the lab? 🌌 Engineer Chance Glenn is using laser interferometry to detect tiny changes in optical path length as he investigates experimental spacetime distortion and its potential applications in #propulsion. Read more: https://bit.ly/4dcSSMk #Astro #PhotonicsFocus
Optics & Photonics News Researchers developed an ultrathin metasurface platform that may enable greater flexibility for reconfigurable nonlinear signal processing and adaptive photonic computing. The system leverages liquid crystals and light to manipulate both linear and nonlinear responses. https://bit.ly/4yzgrHE 💡 ⚛️
Optica 💡 A new method from @uofgnews.bsky.social deduces the precise color of laser light by using an image that rotates as the laser’s frequency shifts. The technique could spur developments in technologies like spectroscopy, magnetometry and #quantum communications. Read more: https://bit.ly/4rPJd44
Optics & Photonics News "One of the best ways to accelerate your growth is surprisingly simple: bring possible solutions, not just problems." OPN's October Career Focus features Caroline Boudoux's story of becoming a researcher. Check it out: https://bit.ly/4zrM8Tt #academicsky 💡 ⚛️ 🧪
Optica 🔭 💡 #Exoplanets can be up to a billion times dimmer than their host star, making them difficult to detect. To capture images of exoplanets, this design isolates and eliminates light from the star and recomposes the optical field after the light is rejected. https://bit.ly/4rHm83P #WorldSpaceWeek
Optica 🔭 A dying star is throwing a cosmic tantrum in this combined image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope and the Galaxy Evolution Explorer. In death, the star's dusty outer layers unravel into space, glowing from the intense UV radiation released by the hot stellar core. —NASA/JPL-Caltech #astrophoto
Laser Focus World magazine So excited for LFW's keynotes during our PhotonicsNXT virtual event next week!
Optics & Photonics News In the latest installment of Journeys in Optics, OPN spoke with Thomas Luhmann about his career in photogrammetry, founding an institute at his university, writing and collaborating on a successful textbook and advice for early-career researchers. https://bit.ly/4zhwppO 💡 ⚛️ #academicsky
Optics & Photonics News A new digital-optical processor can accurately detect deepfake videos when analyzing 15+ videos simultaneously. The high-speed and scalable system offers a robust and efficient solution for content providers to identify AI-generated visual media. Read the OPN story: https://bit.ly/4zhV0uL 💡 ⚛️ 🧪
SPIE Antarctic ice is helping us see some of the universe’s most elusive particles.🔭 Francis Halzen has received the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics for his contributions to IceCube and the discovery of high-energy neutrinos. 💡 Read more: https://bit.ly/4zjCbat
Optica ⚛️ 🧪 What does the future of space #optics look like? As the cost of accessing space falls, the optics community has a unique opportunity to innovate with disruptive technologies like computational imaging, advanced laser systems and more. Read more for #WorldSpaceWeek: https://bit.ly/3U2a3cY
Optica 🔭 💡 Where did we come from, and where are we going? From fabrication to final acceptance tests, learn about reflective space optics for the next generation of telescopes across the X-ray to far-infrared spectrum in this #OPG_AOP: https://bit.ly/4rIYtQl #WorldSpaceWeek @opg.optica.org
Optica A new computational model that accounts for individual differences in human color vision can help determine why the colors of today’s displays sometimes appear different from person to person. Read more: https://bit.ly/4hyWzyw #Vision 🧪 💡
SPIE FIR gap? Not for long. 🛰️ NASA’s PRIMA will help #astronomers fill the gap in our ability to observe the far-infrared universe. It’s also the first mission in NASA’s new Probe Explorers class. 🔭 Read this article to learn more: https://bit.ly/4hCfSW7
Optica Congratulations Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and George Nagel, awarded the #NobelPrize in Physiology/#Medicine for their pioneering work in light-gated ion channels and optogenetics. Their work established the use of light-sensitive proteins to control specific cells' activity with light. 💡🧪
Optics & Photonics News New work, out of UC San Diego, shows how a shaped and focused light beam can control magnetic bits in multilayered materials with no external magnetic field. The study could lead to optical switches more than three orders of magnitude faster than magnetic ones. https://bit.ly/3VumgYo 💡 ⚛️
Optica Congratulations, Francis Halzen, awarded the 2026 #NobelPrize in Physics for decisive contributions to the IceCube Neutrino Observatory and the discovery of high-energy neutrinos of astrophysical origin! Learn more about Halzen and the role of #optics in today’s recognition: https://bit.ly/4y4TcnQ
Thorlabs, Inc. 💡 The same physics behind safety reflectors, sparkling gemstones, and fiber optics? Total Internal Reflection.
Optics & Photonics News Startup Singular Photonics launched a single-photon avalanche diode (SPAD) image sensor they say is the first capable of supporting simultaneous intensity, timing and histogramming modes. Read the OPN story: https://bit.ly/4xVjWHi 💡 ⚛️ 🧪
Optica 💡 🧪 What is #optogenetics? Starting with the study of an alga, this field supplied a molecular tool for manipulating neurons in mammals, creating new ways to map the brain. Read about the foundational work of #NobelPrize winners Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann & Georg Nagel: https://bit.ly/4dOsGru
Optics & Photonics News Image of the Week: Snowflake in Phase A melting snowflake is shown as a quantitative phase map in which color encodes the optical path length of light through the crystal, proportional to its thickness. Read more here: http://bit.ly/3Uj2QCf
Optics & Photonics News Excimer lasers made their debut 50 years ago. Today, they remain vital tools in vision correction, semiconductor lithography and display manufacturing, with fusion research on the horizon. Check out OPN's October issue feature article for more! https://bit.ly/3VP35sf 💡 ⚛️ 🧪
SPIE Optogenetics takes the spotlight!💡 The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2026 was awarded to Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann, & Georg Nagel “for their discoveries concerning light-gated ion channels and optogenetics.” We congratulate everyone who supported this work. 👏 spie.org/news/optogen...
Thorlabs, Inc. We're looking forward to opening our dedicated sales and support office in Bengaluru, India! Tell us about the technologies and applications advancing India's photonics community in the comments below.