Over the past decades, engineers have introduced numerous technologies that rely on light and its underlying characteristics.

(WHTM) — There’s nothing like a bewildering optical illusion to get the weekend off to a good start. There are all kinds to choose from: the image that looks like one thing but also looks like another ...

Physicists are quietly rewriting one of the most basic units in science, using a new generation of optical clocks that can ...

Innovative optical tractor beam technology enables 40-cm pulling of micro-droplets, highlighting the role of photon momentum in engineered optical waveguides.

Engineers have developed an experimental strategy to control and observe the chemical reaction of a single nanocatalyst using an optical microscope -- Expected to contribute to catalyst design based ...

Four Starling technology demonstration spacecraft, Blue Canyon Technologies six-unit cubesats, during a solar array deployment test at NASA Ames Research Center. Credit: the four swarm spacecraft ...

The targets are the images displayed on an LCD screen (left two columns) and the objects in the wild (right two columns; beckoning cat doll and stuffed bear), respectively. The first row shows the ...

Dr Mudassar Nauman experimenting at an optical table. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases posted to EurekAlert! by contributing institutions or for ...

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Optical Surfaces Ltd. offer a range of optical mounts designed to mechanically support parabolic, spherical, and flat mirrors from 100 to 600mm (4 to 24 inches) in diameter. Employing high precision ...