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ETH Zurich built a 10-micron plasmonic pixel that controls amplitude, phase, and polarization at once, working both as a light sensor and a light source.

Single-photon avalanche diode arrays are moving from confocal add-ons to widefield cameras and consumer sensors, changing how microscopy captures light.

A researcher's map of ten converging trends reshaping microscopy — from computational imaging and SPAD detectors to metasurfaces and quantum microscopy.

Since 1976, every color camera sensor has discarded 70% of incoming light. Eyeo, an imec spin-off, replaces absorptive filters with nanophotonic waveguides that route photons instead.

BisQue is a free, browser-based ML platform for storing, annotating, and analysing up to 5D microscopy data. Supports 100+ formats, Python, MATLAB, and ImageJ.

A 1 mm² chip packed with 25 lasers just hit 362 Gbps using light instead of radio waves — at half the energy cost of Wi-Fi. Here's what it means.

NVIDIA invested $4B in optical interconnects. Here's the physics behind why copper is failing AI infrastructure — and why photonics is the answer.

Orienting a plano-convex lens incorrectly introduces spherical aberrations that blur your focus. Here's the rule every optical designer should follow.

Samsung's Galaxy S26 Ultra uses a redesigned Black Matrix and dual-pixel architecture to restrict light emission angle per pixel — engineering privacy into the hardware itself.

The OpenMicroscopy GitHub repo by Hohlbein Lab curates 80+ free tools: hardware designs, control software, analysis pipelines, and open data repositories.