Record exhibitor, conference and show numbers set an optimistic tone for the entire industry, says event organiser SPIE.

Researchers at the University of Rochester have made an optics breakthrough that allows them to encode an entire image's worth of data into a photon, slow the image down for storage, and then retrieve the image intact

Heptagon, the Finnish-Swiss specialist in UV replicated micro-optics and producer of micro- and nano-optical components, has established a US subsidiary Heptagon.

Luna Innovations has been awarded $4 million in U.S. Air Force contracts for continued research and development of nanotechnology-enabled products.

HP has announced research that could lead to the creation of field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) up to eight times denser.

Ultrafast lasers, oscillators, and amplifiers have undergone a dramatic evolution over the last 30 years.