Jolyon De Freitas says that the ubiquity of optics and photonics in the coming decades will provide many challenges but ample opportunities too Lighting the way The UK-based Photonics Leadership Group ...

With an applied physics: optics degree, you’ll gain specialized expertise in optics, preparing you for diverse career opportunities in technology, research, and academia. Become who you’re meant to be ...

Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics (commonly referred to AMO Physics) is the study of the interaction between light and matter. Physicists study this interaction on various scales, from the atomic ...

New experiments are pushing our understanding of light and optics to the limit and are also opening up new areas of physics and novel applications. (Picture credit: Photodisc) Optics has always been ...

A career in optical physics or engineering means knowing about the behavior and properties of light, including its interactions with matter and its detection by instruments. Since the discovery that ...

Recent developments in nonlinear optics have led to the discovery of a new class of ultrashort pulse, the ‘optical similariton’. Optical similaritons arise when the interaction of nonlinearity, ...

Sunlight, moonlight, torchlight, and flashlight... They all come from different places, but they’re the very same thing: light! It’s what makes it possible for us to see the world around us, so it’s ...

This year's Nobel Prize in Physics will be shared by three scientists who created revolutionary technologies decades ago that have changed our world today. Half of the $1.4 million prize will go to a ...

Abu 'Ali Al-Hasan bin Al-Haytham (965-1040 C.E.) was one of the most eminent physicists, whose contributions to optics and scientific methods are outstanding. Known in the West as Alhazen, Ibn ...

In the Environmental Optics Laboratory (EOL) we perform research to reduce uncertainties by developing new measurement and analytical methods. Several graduate and undergraduate students participate ...