Rougher Interfaces May Increase Efficiency of Next-Generation Solar Cells
At the OSA Advanced Photonics Congress, researchers from Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin demonstrate that introducing tiny nanoscale texturing on the surfaces of materials in perovskite/silicon tandem solar...
View ArticleThe Optical Society Announces 2021 Class of Senior Members
The Optical Society (OSA) Board of Directors announces its 2021 class of Senior Members inclusive of 196 OSA Members. The Senior Member distinction recognizes experience and professional accomplishment...
View ArticleEarly-stage Photonics Companies Profiled in New Ones to Watch Series
The OSA Industry Development Associates (OIDA) today announced the launch of the Ones to Watch report series profiling innovative early-stage photonics companies. Featuring interviews with executives...
View ArticleThe Optical Society Announces 2021 OSA Treasurer’s Award Recipients
OSA announced today that staff members Kelly Cohen, senior publisher, and Terence Rooney, senior program manager, students and early-career professionals, were selected as the recipients of the 2021...
View ArticleThe 2021 Frontiers in Optics and Laser Science Conference Transitions to an...
The 2021 Frontiers in Optics + Laser Science (FiO+LS) conference, presented by the American Physical Society’s Division of Laser Science (DLS) and The Optical Society (OSA), has been transitioned to a...
View ArticleCompact System Designed for High-Precision, Robot-Based Surface Measurements
Researchers have developed a lightweight optical system for 3D inspection of surfaces with micron-scale precision. As described in The Optical Society (OSA) journal Applied Optics, the new system is...
View ArticleNew Technology Lays Groundwork for Large-Scale, High-Resolution 3D Displays
In The Optical Society (OSA) journal Optics Letters, Researchers have developed a prototype display that uses projection to create large-scale 3D images with ultra-high definition.
View ArticleNobel Laureate Donna Strickland and Steve Rummel with II-VI Incorporated to...
The all-virtual Laser Congress held 03 – 07 October will provide a comprehensive view of the latest advances in solid-state laser development and applications and feature Nobel Laureate Donna...
View ArticleNew Powerful Laser Passes Field Test
A powerful experimental laser developed by the European Southern Observatory, TOPTICA Projects and other partners passed a key test at the Allgaeuer Volkssternwarte Ottobeuren observatory in Germany....
View ArticleInfinera's Optical Innovation Team Awarded OSA’s 2021 Paul F. Forman Team...
Infinera's Optical Innovation Team, USA, has received the 2021 Paul F. Forman Team Engineering Excellence Award. The team is recognized “for the design, development and commercial deployment of a...
View ArticleReconfigurable Metasurfaces Provide Nanoscale Light Control
In The Optical Society's Optics Express, researchers from Beijing Institute of Technology, China designed new metasurfaces using nanoscale techniques inspired by kirigami that could offer a new...
View ArticleRadiant Sponsors Vehicle Displays & Interfaces Detroit and Demonstrates...
Radiant Vision Systems will exhibit at the Society for Information Display Vehicle Displays & Interfaces 28th Annual Symposium. Radiant will display updated imaging photometers and colorimeters,...
View ArticleOSA Fellow Jun Ye Named Recipient of the Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental...
The Optical Society (OSA) congratulates OSA Fellow Jun Ye on receiving the 2022 Breakthrough Prize. The Breakthrough Prize, now in its tenth year, awards scientists and mathematicians who have advanced...
View ArticleNew Technology Makes It Possible to See Clearly Through Murky Water
In Optics Express, Tianjin University researchers overcome the limitations of traditional polarimetric underwater imaging by developing a new method that can automatically produce clear images through...
View ArticleOSA Becomes Optica, the Society Advancing Optics and Photonics Worldwide
Today marks a historic day for OSA, as the organization changes its name to Optica, the society advancing optics and photonics worldwide. Its new name reinforces the society’s position as the leading...
View ArticleNew Imaging System Reveals Solar Panel Defects Even in Bright Sunlight
In the Optica Publishing Group journal Applied Optics, researchers from Nanjing University of Science and Technology in China describe how a unique combination of new hardware and software allows...
View ArticleResearchers Integrate Optical Devices Made of Multiple Materials onto Single...
In the Optica Publishing Group journal Optical Materials Express, researchers describe a highly accurate way to assemble multiple micron-scale optical devices extremely close together on a single chip....
View ArticleNew Laser Meets Demanding Requirements for Driving Cutting-Edge Attosecond...
At the Optica, formerly OSA, Laser Congress, Steffen Hädrich from Active Fiber Systems GmbH in Germany will present a new laser with a unique combination of few-cycle pulses at high average power,...
View ArticleMid-IR Pulses Create Terahertz Fields That Can Directly Manipulate the...
At the Optica, formerly OSA, Laser Congress Claudia Gollner from TU Wien in Austria will present new findings on an exceptionally strong terahertz (THz) field that can directly drive a large change in...
View ArticleCity Leaders Invited to Discover How Real-time Monitoring of Urban Greenhouse...
The Cities are the Key to the Climate Solution Summit, organised by the Global Environmental Measurement and Monitoring (GEMM) Initiative, will showcase a pilot urban air quality monitoring project in...
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