Optical illusions come in all forms, from mind-melting artwork to photography trickery, but there's one style that never ...

Optical illusions come in all forms, from mind-melting artwork to photography trickery, but there's one style that never fails to perplex the internet – the humble colour illusion. Fooling the brain ...

I am always on the lookout for ideas for simple test and measurement instruments that can be used on my workbench. Over the years, I have built dozens of little test instruments and home lab ...

Microsoft has introduced an analogue optical computer (AOC) that blends light-based computation with analogue electronics to ...

A new publication from Opto-Electronic Science; DOI 10.29026/oes.2022.220010 considers optical logic gates in future computers. If you are reading this on your smartphone, its CPU (central processing ...

This file type includes high resolution graphics and schematics when applicable. A most critical device in an optical networking system is the laser diode, since it’s responsible for converting the ...

The field of all‐optical logic circuits has garnered significant attention in recent years, particularly with the integration of micro‐ring resonators to process information entirely via light. These ...

The reflex, or “red-dot,” sight is a popular category of optical aiming/pointing aids, which finds diverse applications in astronomy, archery, shooting, etc. In the reflex-style sight, a source ...

An on-chip circuit that can produce up to six microwave photons simultaneously has been created by researchers in France and Germany. Gerbold Ménard and Ambroise Peugeot at the University of ...