Researchers from Regensburg and Birmingham have overcome a fundamental limitation of optical microscopy. With the help of ...

Microscopes have long been scientists’ eyes into the unseen, revealing everything from bustling cells to viruses and nanoscale structures. However, even the most powerful optical microscopes have been ...

Scientists achieve optical measurements at atomic scales using quantum electron tunneling, surpassing conventional microscopy limits by nearly 100,000 times with standard lasers.

Analog and digital optoelectronic sensors combine an LED and an optoelectronic integrated circuit in a compact package to enable optical encoders to provide absolute or incremental position detection ...

This figure illustrates the result of distributed temperature sensing using a perfluorinated graded-index plastic optical fiber (POF). The top diagram shows the structure of the sensing POF, including ...

Researchers have developed a new microscope that can visualize the optical response of surfaces at an unprecedented spatial resolution of one nanometer. This paves the way for optical microscopy of ...

Researchers have shown that consumer-grade 3D printers and low-cost materials can be used to produce multi-element optical components that enable super-resolution imaging, with each lens costing less ...

The Optical sensors market is poised for explosive expansion, driven by surging automotive LiDAR shipments and widespread industrial automation. With manufacturing capacities scaling to millions of ...

Researchers from Regensburg and Birmingham overcome a fundamental limitation of optical microscopy. With the help of quantum mechanical effects, they succeed for the first time in performing optical ...