Nature is filled with remarkable visual phenomena created by microscopic surface structures that interact with light in ...

A new telescope technology—measuring just 6 millimeters (0.24 inches) in diameter—could improve how future space missions ...

Designing surfaces that precisely control how light behaves at the nanoscale is tricky. Optical Fourier surfaces, which are ...

A career in optical physics or engineering means knowing about the behavior and properties of light, including its interactions with matter and its detection by instruments. Since the discovery that ...

SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics technology, is the most recent organization to add its name to an endowed faculty chair position with the University of Arizona James C. Wyant ...

Raman optical activity, long thought to require chiral molecules or magnetic order, has been demonstrated in an achiral, ...

The Committee on Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Sciences (CAMOS) supports scientific progress and assists the federal government in the planning of programs in these fields by providing advice on the ...

Left: Schematic of the introduced prototype device for the measurement of specular surfaces, comprised of an unpolarized display and a polarization camera. Right: Measurement example: Object, camera ...

Imagine a home computer operating 1 million times faster than the most expensive hardware on the market. Now, imagine that being the industry standard. Physicists hope to pave the way for that reality ...

For the first time in its history, the UA College of Optical Sciences is undergoing a change in leadership. Thomas Koch, director of the Center for Optical Technologies at Lehigh University, will ...