Deformable mirrors (DMs) and adaptive optics systems represent a significant advancement in the control of optical wavefronts, with applications spanning astronomical instrumentation, high-power laser ...

Lithium niobate (LN) powers a newly developed optical metasurface for shaping and guiding light waves. Leveraging the electro-optical effect of lithium niobate, the device applies different electric ...

Researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) have developed an optical computing framework that performs large-scale nonlinear computations using linear materials. Reported in ...

A silicon-lithium niobate metasurface controls light through air at gigahertz speeds, advancing compact systems for optical communication and signal routing. (Nanowerk Spotlight) Optical systems that ...

Zygo is a market leader when it comes to interferometric metrology instrumentation. With two key product lines in that category, Zygo offers an optical profiler and a laser interferometer as well as ...

A new technical paper titled “Massively parallel and universal approximation of nonlinear functions using diffractive processors” was published by researchers at UCLA. “Nonlinear computation is ...