optical software can help you reach the optimum design. Neil Savage takes a look at some of the latest packages on offer. One aspect of optical design software that its developers are touting for ...

Get closer to our solar companions with the best telescopes for seeing planets, just in time for February's fantastic planetary parade. Want to focus your stargazing on our cosmic neighbors, from ...

TracePy is a sequential ray tracing package written in Python 3 for designing optical systems in the geometric optics regime. It features lens optimization from Scipy. To use TracePy you can either ...

Coltrane, a jazz virtuoso who devoted much of her life to a spiritual journey, is a beacon for today’s artists. An exhibition at the Hammer Museum shows why. By Siddhartha Mitter The first ...

It features a 102mm aperture, a 1325mm focal length, a Maksutov-Cassegrain optical design, smartphone-controlled ... reflector and catadioptric telescopes, and while that say seem a daunting ...

The new design is a simple all-optical version of a type of circuit known as a recurrent neural network. This consists of an input layer that receives a signal, an optical cavity that acts like a ...

Abstract: Optical wireless communication (OWC) systems rely on precise alignment between transmitter and receiver, often requiring tracking equipment in practical applications. However, the complexity ...

The best telescopes allow you to observe this month's full planetary parade more closely and give you a front-row seat to the total lunar eclipse in March. The best telescopes unlock the wonders ...

SO-IL (Solid Objectives – Idenburg Liu) is an architectural design firm based in Brooklyn, New York, founded in 2008 by Florian Idenburg and Jing Liu. Known for an architecture deeply engaged ...

In photonic chips, information can be encoded in optical properties like polarization, phase, magnitude, frequency, and wavevector. While this would be extremely fast and energy-efficient ...

Optical physics is the study of the fundamental properties of light and its interaction with matter. This includes classical optical phenomena such as reflection, refraction, diffraction and ...