Let’s say you want to see whether conditions on the planet Mars are ripe for life. Or maybe you’d like to find individual cells in a patient’s bloodstream to see how diseases cause damage. Or perhaps ...

With a silicone rubber "stick-on" sheet containing dozens of miniature, powerful lenses, engineers are one step closer to putting the capacity of a large laboratory into a micro-sized package. The ...

A research team at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, has developed new laser technology that could lead to tiny, ...

In the Environmental Optics Laboratory (EOL) we perform research to reduce uncertainties by developing new measurement and analytical methods. Several graduate and undergraduate students participate ...

WESTFORD, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Materion Barr Precision Optics & Thin Film Coatings, a Materion Corporation (NYSE:MTRN) business, announces its new Large Area Optics (LAO) laboratory is now fully ...

HOUGHTON -- Just as open-source design has driven down the cost of software to the point that it is accessible to anyone with an Internet connection, open-source designs and 3D printing are driving ...

Physics major Robyn Schwartz is getting a jump start on her senior capstone project this summer, and it’s leading her deeper into the quantum world, the realm of molecules, atoms and subatomic ...

The researchers are now able to further increase the amplitude of the scan angle multiplier by making additional changes inside their invention. They have started a company, called Pacific Optica, to ...

The Advanced Optics Lab is designed to prepare students for optics research at the level of the Ph.D. Theoretical concepts are taken from the optics gradiuate core classes, however it is not necessary ...