An international team of astronomers has uncovered multiple evolutionary paths for the universe's most massive galaxies. Observations of ultramassive galaxies, each containing more than 100 billion ...

A team of researchers at Penn State have devised a new, streamlined approach to designing metasurfaces, a class of engineered ...

For more than a century, the double-slit experiment has been the sharpest test of what reality is made of, and of whether ...

Optical computing has emerged as a powerful approach for high-speed and energy-efficient information processing. Diffractive ...

A fully open-source platform provides a compact rheometer that can be easily combined with optical microscopy, allowing ...

A research team has developed a new way to measure and predict how plant leaves scatter and reflect light, revealing that ...

This unique gamma-ray source will generate a beam of gamma rays like those that existed in the first minutes of our universe after the Big Bang. The high-flux, monochromatic and energy-tunable gamma ...

Optical Instruments: Crash Course Physics #41 Season 1 Episode 41 | 9m 56s | CC How do lenses work? How do they form images? Well, in order to understand how optics work, we have to understand the ...

Abstract: Current signal processing algorithms excel at impairment compensation when the parameters of optical fiber systems are precisely defined. However, their effectiveness diminishes considerably ...

Digital twin (DT) techniques have been proposed for the autonomous operation and lifecycle management of next-generation optical networks. To fully utilize potential capacity and accommodate dynamic ...

Data centers are undergoing a dramatic transformation to reduce the power consumption of high-speed data transmissions by 70% or more with co-packaged optics. By moving optical transceivers from the ...