Every new generation of phone display, television screen and solar panel is the result of precision optics experiments, which use lasers and other light sources to measure the optical properties of ...

A robot has assembled a working tabletop laser cavity in less than 30 minutes, handling the precise alignment usually done manually. Massachusetts Institute of Technology's (MIT's) researchers have ...

Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have developed a robotic laboratory that can build, align and run optics experiments on its own. The system can pick up lenses and mirrors ...

Since it was first demonstrated in the 1960s, spontaneous parametric down-conversion (SPDC) has been at the center of many quantum optics experiments that test the fundamental laws of physics in ...

This opens the door to a new way of doing science, one in which humans are not the sole architects of experimentation. Artificial intelligence has begun to tackle a task once thought to be uniquely ...

Special Optics®, a leading manufacturer of precision optical systems, announced the launch of the Q-Series™ off-the-shelf microscope objectives built specifically for quantum applications. Unlike ...

MIT engineers developed a reconfigurable, robotic optics laboratory autonomously assembles standard optical components into desired configurations. The team showed that the robotic system could ...