PureLiFi has launched a LiFi system for the home. LiFi at Home has a downlighter that fits into standard GU10 lightbulb fittings. Credit: PureLiFi
Laser-based technology and sophisticated modulation schemes could help deliver on future demands for high data volumes, finds Andy Extance
The future of LEDS lies some way beyond the humble LED bulb. (Image: LariBat/shutterstock.com)
As nations turn to LED lighting to save energy and cut emissions, industry players are still chasing efficiencies and searching for the elusive, right light, reports Rebecca Pool
Superluminescent LED drivers can help us understand ocean turbulence, here’s how
The device triggers a chemical process that converts CO2 and hydrogen into methane and carbon monoxide
The carbon capture device could process up to one megaton of carbon dioxide per year
Laser Components is expanding its portfolio of UV LEDs with products from the South Korean manufacturer Photon Wave
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Researchers detail how two relatively unexplored semiconducting materials can satisfy the demand for more data at greater speeds
As part of the Horizon 2020 project Repro-light two novel LED tiles have been developed that offer new lighting possibilities
Improved performance is achieved without the external packaging components that are often used to manipulate the light emitted by LEDs
Keely Portway looks at how optical software is being used to design light sources
Reporting from the EMVA conference in Copenhagen, Greg Blackman sees how gigapixel resolution can be created with low-cost optics
Professor Paul Shore led the team that micromachined the complex mirrors within James Webb’s mid-infrared instrument. He chats about the technical lessons learnt
EMF invested a great deal of time and effort in developing a coating system for producing long-lasting diamond like carbon (DLC) coatings on chalcogenides at scale
The properties of chalcogenide glass optics have opened up a number of use cases in infrared optics applications and beyond. This article assesses how some of the associated manufacturing and handling challenges of this material can be overcome
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We detail the commercial offerings from some of the main players in optical mirrors
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Shining a light on the latest products and solutions in the diode laser space
Optical technologies offer researchers a powerful new toolkit to explore the structure and function of the brain. (Image: Sergey Nivens/Shutterstock.com)
Advances in optical fibres and microscale LEDs are furthering neuroscientists’ understanding of the brain
The nulling interferometry devices under development at Caltech’s Exoplanet Technology Laboratory cancel out starlight to help detect and identify foreign worlds. (Credit: Shutterstock/Dotted Yeti)
Nemanja Jovanovic, lead instrument scientist at Caltech’s Optical Observatory and Exoplanet Technology Laboratory, on emerging astrophotonic technologies on his radar
Robert Smith is a professor at the University of Alberta and historian to JWST since 2002
As James Webb Space Telescope beams back images from the edge of space and time, space historian Robert Smith recalls some of the decisions made to bring the $10bn NASA project to fruition. David Stuart reports
