The growing demand for compact, high-performance optical systems has sparked interest in free-form optics. Free-form optics enable flexible light manipulation and compact device design. However, ...

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Large-aperture interferometers are important in the manufacturing and measurement of large-aperture optical elements, which play critical roles in the fields of optical precision manufacturing and ...

Light has always carried more than brightness. In this case, it also carries direction and twist. That mix may open a new ...

Bright background light can do more than clutter a quantum experiment. It can wash out the very features that make quantum systems useful in the first place. That is the problem a team at the Institut ...

A powerful new microscopy technique unveils hidden nanoscale light interactions, offering a glimpse into physics that ...

Artificial intelligence grows more demanding every year. Modern models learn and operate by pushing huge volumes of data through repeated matrix operations that sit at the heart of every neural ...

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Want to call someone a quick-thinker? The easiest cliché for doing so is calling her a computer – in fact, “computers” was the literal job title of the “Hidden Figures” mathematicians who drove the ...