The Optical Society

Portable, low-cost 3D displays for mobile need no glasses

Full Circle Viewing: 360-degree Electronic Holographic Display

New Quantum Technology Chip Could Bring Highest Level of Encryption to Any Mobile Device

Entanglement on a chip: Breakthrough promises secure communications and faster computers

Fraud-proof credit cards possible with quantum physics

Supersonic Laser-Propelled Rockets

A New LCD Display Screen that Doesn’t Have to Use Any Power

An invisible waveguide (pathway for light) being written via laser into a smartphone's display glass is shown. The waveguide is a horizontal line from the left side of the screen, but it cannot be seen with the naked eye. Credit: Optics Express

New technology for carving light into Gorilla® Glass could let manufacturers pack more apps into new real estate: The display glass itself

This schematic diagram shows how the new system can be used to measure a person's glucose levels noninvasively. Credit: Biomedical Optics Express

New biometric watches use light to non-invasively monitor glucose, dehydration, pulse

Bake Your Own Droplet Lens

A simulation of the illuminance of an alleyway at noon at two different times of year, autumn (top) and winter (bottom). The new light-directing panel increases the amount of light that reaches the alleyway, as indicated by the higher amounts of red and yellow in the right-hand images (“with panel”) compared to the left-hand images (“without panel”). Credit: Optics Express.

Let the Sun Shine In: Redirecting Sunlight to Urban Alleyways

The new optical circuit works when bent around an object about the diameter of a human finger. Credit: Centre for Microsystems Technology/imec/Ghent University.

A Stretchable Highway for Light

Early Detection of Blinding Eye Disease Could be as Easy as Scanning a Barcode

Optical sensors improve railway safety

Scientists Rig Hospital-grade Lightweight Blood Flow Imager on the Cheap