At high power, laser light inside a multimode optical fiber is supposed to misbehave. The beam usually breaks into a noisy, ...

Enabling high-speed swept-source OCT with advanced data acquisition Optical coherence tomography (OCT) has become an ...

Swept-source OCT offers performance benefits in a wide variety of applications. A critical component at the core of the ...

The precise generation and manipulation of three-dimensional (3D) vectorial optical fields is essential for emerging applications in volumetric displays, secure data encoding, optical computing, and ...

Scientific understanding of myelin, the lipid-rich sheath of axons essential for vertebrate rapid neuronal communication, has evolved considerably. Enabled by major advances in imaging technology, ...

High-end optical methods such as super-resolution microscopy exploit the properties of advanced components and lenses, but these items can be expensive to source and maintain. Creating optomechanical ...

An active underwater volcano off the Oregon Coast that was predicted to erupt in 2025 is now expected to erupt mid-to-late 2026. The Axial Seamount volcano is located nearly a mile beneath the sea, ...

A tiny polarization controlled metalens creates a flexible 3D sensor that shifts between precision and long-range modes, offering a new path toward adaptable optical measurement tools. (Nanowerk ...

Axial Therapeutics has stepped back into the spotlight, emerging after almost two years of silence with a new name, focus and financing. Two years ago, the biotech was closing in on data from a phase ...

Capable of capturing cross-sectional images of biological tissues at micrometer-scale resolution, in real time, Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) has emerged as an efficient, non-invasive imaging ...