A pulse of light sets the tempo in the material. Atoms in a crystalline sheet just a few atoms thick begin to move—not ...

Is it possible to 3d print a diffraction pattern?

Researchers built a silver-grooved chip that channels laser energy into nanometer-spaced peaks, beating the diffraction limit and aiding light-matter studies.

Researchers built a computer that performs AI calculations at light speed in a single shot. The breakthrough can help AI ...

Researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) have developed an optical computing framework that performs ...

UCLA researchers demonstrate diffractive optical processors as universal nonlinear function approximators using linear ...

This summer, it was all over the media. Driven by the climate crisis, the oceans have now also passed a critical point: The ...

As artificial intelligence grows more powerful, so does its appetite for speed and energy. The quest for faster, smarter systems has driven researchers to an unlikely ally—light itself.

Researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) have developed an optical computing framework that performs large-scale nonlinear ...

Fresnel zone plate (FZP) stacking is an approach to enhance diffraction efficiency in x-ray focusing and imaging by physically aligning 2 or more FZPs to increase the effective thickness and optical ...