Light can be sculpted into countless shapes. Yet building optical devices that can simultaneously manipulate many different ...

A spinning black hole just revealed its inner chaos, XRISM’s image goes deeper than any X-ray telescope before it.

American Bureau of Shipping (ABS) has awarded an approval in principle (AIP) to Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI) for its novel design of a wireless fire and gas detection system that advances safety in ...

Reflection AI, a startup founded just last year by two former Google DeepMind researchers, has raised $2 billion at an $8 billion valuation, a whopping 15x leap from its $545 million valuation just ...

MatLab thin film reflection, transmission, absorption calculator based on transfer matrix method. Includes ability to plot dispersion for arbitrary number of films and wavelength-dependent complex ...

An electromagnetic solver capable of simulating and optimizing 1D (thin-layer) structures via the semi-analytical transfer matrix method. For example, one can simulate and optimize broadband ...

In today’s hyperactive business environment, where relentless activity often masquerades as progress, leaders must embrace a contrarian truth: pausing for reflection isn’t just beneficial—it’s a ...

Spectroscopy, a branch of the physical sciences, investigates the interactions between electromagnetic radiation and matter. It involves analyzing how light interacts with a sample—whether through ...

The history of optical thin-film coatings dates back to 1817, when Fraunhofer first discovered the anti-reflection effect of a single layer on glass. Since then, significant advancements have been ...

During light scattering, the majority of scattered light undergoes no change in frequency (or energy), in a process referred to as referred to as elastic or Rayleigh scattering. Raman spectroscopy ...