Optical computing has emerged as a powerful approach for high-speed and energy-efficient information processing. Diffractive ...

Find out CPO’s 2025 scorecard and what lies ahead for this optical interconnect technology in 2026 and beyond.

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Optical materials are substances used to manipulate the flow of light. This can include reflecting, absorbing, focusing or splitting an optical beam. The efficiency of a specific material at each task ...

Researchers at the ArQuS Laboratory of the University of Trieste (Italy) and the National Institute of Optics of the Italian National Research Council (CNR-INO) have achieved the first imaging of ...

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Micro-optics are optical systems that are between a few micrometres and a millimetre in size. This includes small lenses or arrays of lenses, or optical fibres with a microscale core diameter. Such ...