Additive manufacturing of glass materials represents a transformative innovation within materials science, offering a route to fabricating intricately structured, customisable glass components that ...

The international optical and photonic components market reached over $300 billion in 2020. Optical processing starts with raw materials and finishes with finely crafted optical components. The ...

Glass is ubiquitous in high-tech products in the fields of optics, telecommunications, chemistry and medicine, and in everyday objects such as bottles and windows. However, shaping glass is mainly ...

Chalcogenide glass thin films have emerged as a focal point in photonics and optoelectronics owing to their distinctive optical characteristics, including high refractive indices, broad infrared ...

Pure quartz glass is highly transparent and resistant to thermal, physical, and chemical impacts. These are optimum prerequisites for use in optics, data technology or medical engineering. For ...

Researchers succeed in producing rapid, cost-effective and environmentally friendly material. Glass is ubiquitous, from high-tech products in the fields of optics, telecommunications, chemistry and ...

After decades of physics-based theorizing, researchers have succeeded in creating a novel optical metamaterial using conventional materials. Its enhanced electromagnetic effect may make true one-way ...

The purpose of optical coatings is to change the reflectivity of optical surfaces. According to the materials and physical phenomena which are used one can in principle distinguish metallic and ...

(Nanowerk News) Photonic time crystals consist of materials with uniform composition in space but properties that vary periodically over time. With this periodic variation, the spectral composition of ...

Schematic diagram and microscopic observation of an optical fiber doped with rare-earth atoms. The fluorescence from the entire optical fiber can be seen. (b) Schematic diagram and microscopic ...

Team led by Aydogan Ozcan presents reconfigurable optical network for multi- dimensional functions. Artistic depiction of a diffractive optical processor. Engineers at the University of California, ...