LEDs offer a new palette of colors to the world of lighting. First, learn these two basic types: soft white and daylight. Soft white refers to warm golden light at 2700 Kelvin, close to the look of ...

Engineers are turning what used to be a bulky optics bench into something that fits on the tip of a finger, and the latest photonic chips go a step further by splitting a single laser into a ...

How a Stanford University research team used acoustic waves to manipulate light. Device implementation involving gold nanoparticles placed in a particle-on-mirror configuration with a compressible ...

In the dark, vivid colors seem to fade to gray and they're hard to tell apart. Why is that? When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. If ...

Light is a key factor influencing the welfare of laboratory rodents, but little is known about their optimal lighting condition. It i common knowledge that rats prefer dim light, so bright light is ...

Polarization has been a central concept to our understanding of optics and has found many applications ranging from quantum science to our daily life. 3D polarization structures possess peculiar ...