Jenoptik is making its first presentation of polymer optics with an innovative antireflective surface coating to suit a multitude of applications at last Optatec 2012. One of the few vendors in this ...

Researchers have developed an optical coating system that combines antifogging and antireflective properties. The new technology could help boost the performance of lidar systems and cameras. “Walking ...

A new method predicts leaf optical properties from traits, improving canopy light modeling and photosynthesis estimates in ...

Thin-film coatings can be essential to obtaining the desired performance from an optical component. Stuart Allan describes the types available and provides purchasing advice. Optical thin-film ...

A research team has developed a new way to measure and predict how plant leaves scatter and reflect light, revealing that ...

The basics of fiber optic cables and bundles and how they can be used to collect and direct light are discussed in ‘An Introduction to a Spectrometer: Fiber Optic Bundles’. This article will discuss ...

Conventional optical components such as lenses, waveplates and holograms rely on light propagation over distances much larger than the wavelength to shape wavefronts. In this way substantial changes ...

Optics in Physics: Optics is a fascinating branch of Physics that studies the behaviour and properties of light, including its interactions with matter and the construction of instruments that use or ...

Although plasmas are generally considered as unstable and hardly controllable media, during an ultrashort laser pulse—typically below 100 fs—this plasma only expands by a small fraction of the light ...