Optics & Photonics News

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  Research News

  Lasers Enable Welding of Ceramics

  Stewart Wills | 23 August 2019

  Technique using ultrafast pulses and nonlinear optics opens path for low-temperature joining of tough-to-weld materials, potentially expanding applications of ceramics. read more  

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  Industry News

  Report: Metamaterials Poised for Commercial Growth

  Stewart Wills | 22 August 2019

  Market research study envisions demand growth from near-zero base today to US$10.7 billion by 2030. read more  

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  Book Reviews

  Optics f2f: From Fourier to Fresnel

  Charles S. Adams and Ifan G. Hughes | 22 August 2019 | Review by Barry R. Masters

  This book is a comprehensive and highly recommended undergraduate textbook. read more  

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  Research News

  Backscattering Suppression for Better Data Transmission

  Patricia Daukantas | 21 August 2019

  A team has found a way to minimize loss in dielectric resonators by exploiting a Brillouin-scattering interaction and breaking time-reversal symmetry. read more  

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  Careers

  Developing Potential with Naven Chetty

  Rebecca Robinson | 20 August 2019

  A biomedical physicist and college dean discusses the lasting impact that mentoring students can have on science. read more  

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  Research News

  Super-Resolution Microscopy on a Budget

  Stewart Wills | 19 August 2019

  System using upconversion nanoparticles as “super-linear” fluorophores reportedly could allow imaging below the diffraction limit on ordinary confocal microscopes. read more  

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  Research News

  Cheaper, Greener Electrodes for Flexible Solar Cells

  Stewart Wills | 16 August 2019

  Team of U.K. chemists devises a low-cost, environmentally friendly approach to deposition of patterned copper and silver, a possible boon to next-gen flexible photovoltaics. read more  

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  Book Reviews

  Lightwave Communications

  George C. Papen and Richard E. Blahut | 15 August 2019 | Review by K. Alan Shore

  This extremely well-constructed book is aimed at advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students. read more  

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  Research News

  Could Solar Power Find a Home on the Farm?

  Stewart Wills | 13 August 2019

  Model suggests that photovoltaic panels are at their most efficient and productive not in sun-soaked desert installations, but in more temperate agricultural settings. read more  

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  Research News

  Retroreflective Structural Colors

  Stewart Wills | 12 August 2019

  Researchers in China and the U.S. create an inexpensive film that could passively add bright, shifting and attention-grabbing colors to critical road signs and other nighttime displays. read more