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Munisamy Anandan, president of the Society for Information Display, talks to Rebecca Pool about the breath-taking technologies that are now emerging in the displays market.
By exploiting optical quantum interference in integrated atomic vapour cells, Holger Schmidt and co-workers have achieved the slowest on-chip light propagation speed reported to date.
Holographic laser projection technology, combined with infrared touch-recognition technology, enables consumers to interact with a virtual display that can be projected onto a wall or table.
Bright X-ray free-electron lasers are beginning to unveil the properties of matter on atomic and femtosecond scales. A truly useful laser must be not only bright but also exhibit simultaneous spatial and temporal coherence, and researchers have now demonstrated a technique that may help to achieve this goal.
Graphene — a form of carbon isolated only six years ago — is the topic of this year's Nobel Prize for Physics, giving hope for future applications of this intriguing material in the field of photonics.
The unexpected demonstration of all-optical trapping of ions offers new possibilities in the simulation of quantum spin systems, ultracold chemistry with ions and more.
Microdisplays based on liquid-crystal-on-silicon technology may soon gain wider recognition as they penetrate an increasing number of markets, ranging from electronic viewfinders to miniature data projectors and head-up displays.
Researchers in Japan have used electron-beam excitation in an AlGaN/AlGaN quantum-well structure to demonstrate the emission of ultraviolet light at record-breaking efficiency, giving hope for the realization of high-power efficient semiconductor sources of deep-ultraviolet light.
Exploiting the self-healing properties of Bessel beams, scientists demonstrate a microscope that offers better image quality and deeper penetration in dense media than current imaging schemes.
Research on solar cells, optical frequency combs, high-power laser diodes and brain monitoring were all topics of discussion at the autumn meeting of the Japan Society of Applied Physics in Nagasaki this September.
Researchers demonstrate a coherent dual-comb-based spectrometer capable of measuring continuous-wave optical waveforms at time resolutions of 30 µs and 320 µs over terahertz bandwidths. The device is potentially useful for sensing applications such as multispecies gas detection, coherent laser radar and optical metrology.
