The demand for disposable miniature imaging platforms (DMIPs) is growing rapidly. Used for commercial, scientific, medical, and educational purposes, DMIPs have numerous applications but can be ...

NIST researchers designed and fabricated this on-chip system to shape multiple laser beams (blue arrows) and control their polarization before the light is sent into space to interact with a device or ...

Optical encoders have been used to measure position, speed, acceleration and motion direction for decades, but now they are finding new applications where high performance and miniaturization are ...

Two-photon polymerization (TPP) and direct laser writing (DLW) techniques utilise focused ultrashort laser pulses to induce highly localised photochemical reactions in photosensitive materials, ...

Recently, the research team of Jianli Wang of Changchun Institute of Optics, Fine Mechanics and Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, has made progress in the astronomical observation based on ...