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The Internet of Things: From Hype to Reality

Edwin Cartlidge

The web of connected objects has so far failed to live up to its billing. But that should change. Continue Reading


 

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Light-Based Method Improves Practicality and Quality of Remote Wind Measurements

06 September 2017
Researchers have developed a new remote sensing instrument based on light detection and ranging (LIDAR) that could offer a simple and robust way to...

Light-Based Method Improves Practicality and Quality of Remote Wind Measurements

The Optical Society Announces 2017 Treasurer’s Award Recipient

06 September 2017
The Optical Society (OSA), the leading global professional association in optics and photonics, announced today that M. Scott Dineen, senior direct...

The Optical Society Announces 2017 Treasurer’s Award Recipient

Rush Holt to Deliver Science Policy talk during 2017 Frontiers in Optics + Laser Sciences Meeting

30 August 2017
At a time when there are widespread concerns about the place of science in our society and government, what role should scientists have with policy...

Rush Holt to Deliver Science Policy talk during 2017 Frontiers in Optics + Laser Sciences Meeting

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11-fs dark pulses generated via coherent absorption in plasmonic metamaterial

Optics Express, Vol. 25 Issue 19, pp.22620-22625 (2017)
We demonstrate generation of the shortest reported 11fs dark pulses using the coherent absorption process on a plasmonic absorber with a gating pul...

11-fs dark pulses generated via coherent absorption in plasmonic metamaterial

Design and simulation of a superposition compound eye system based on hybrid diffractive-refractive lenses

Applied Optics, Vol. 56 Issue 26, pp.7442-7449 (2017)
Compound eyes offer a promising field of miniaturized imaging systems. In one application of a compound eye, superposition of compound eye systems ...

Design and simulation of a superposition compound eye system based on hybrid diffractive-refractive lenses

Resolving the bond angle of a plasmonic metamolecule

Optica, Vol. 4 Issue 9, pp.1092-1097 (2017)
Plasmonic metamolecules have many peculiar properties and have been applied in biological and materials science such as in reconfigurable 3D buildi...

Resolving the bond angle of a plasmonic metamolecule

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