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Join us in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, at CHUM - Centre hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal to bridge the gap between industrial innovation in photonics-enabled medical devices and successful market realization! Hosted by Optonique, attendees will network with healthcare practitioners, regulatory experts, investors, and more critical actors in the medical industry. Mark your calendars for 08-09 October and secure your spot here: https://bit.ly/4d8aZQI #industry #photonics #medicine #healthcare

A new method from the Universidad de Salamanca for generating attosecond vortex pulse trains opens new avenues toward attosecond-resolved light-matter interactions: https://bit.ly/3Ziurqo The study, published in #OPG_Optica, introduces attosecond vortex pulse trains as novel ultrafast light structures exhibiting a well-defined OAM in the attosecond regime. The combination of attosecond pulses carrying both spin angular and orbital angular momentum can enable applications in diverse scientific areas such as chemistry, biology, condensed matter physics, or magnetism. Written by: Alba de las Heras, David Schmidt, Julio San Román, Javier Serrano, Jonathan Barolak, Bojana Ivanic, Cameron Clarke, Nathaniel Westlake, Daniel E. Adams, Luis Plaja, Charles G. Durfee, and Carlos Hernández-García #optics #attosecondphysics #physics #scienceandtechnology

Join us in welcoming Acqiris SA as a new #OpticaCorporateMember! Acqiris leverages 25 years of experience in award-winning digitizer technology, ADC cards, and on-board FPGA signal processing. Learn more about Acqiris: https://acqiris.com/

Peking University researchers provide an in-depth examination of the mechanism of parallel beam splitting of PB-phase metasurfaces: https://bit.ly/3Tc8Vju Demonstrating its application in classical and quantum interference, the #OPG_OpEx study may open an avenue for planar integration of optical switching and optical computing, promoting the parallelization and multifunctionality of on-chip quantum information processing. Written by: Qi Liu, Xuan Liu, Yu Tian, Zhaohua Tian, Guixin Li, Xi-Feng Ren, Qihuang Gong, and Ying Gu #Quantum #classicaloptics #physics #laserscience

Congratulations to the 2023 recipients of the Optics Continuum Best Paper Prize! The winning paper, “Terahertz wireless communication systems: challenges and solutions for realizations of effective bidirectional links,” discusses the challenges for bi-directional mobile terahertz wireless communications and examines potential solutions. Editorial by #OPG_OPTCON Editor-in-Chief Judith Dawes and Deputy Editor Gualtiero Nunzi Conti

#Startups from around the world compete for millions at the Luminate Accelerator’s annual tech demo day and pitch competition on 9/26. Join #LuminateFinals2024 in person or online to get a close look at brilliant innovations poised to transform a host of industries, and vote to help your favorite startup take home the Audience Choice Award (and $10,000 cash). Luminate Finals is sponsored by Optica and will also feature a panel discussion on the ethical use of data in #AI. In-person seats are limited. Register now: https://lnkd.in/gA5AEYdU

In addition to bringing together over 200 executive leaders, investors, and policymakers, this First Edition of the Global Photonics Economic Forum will host the Optica i4 Prize Ceremony. Ulrike Fuchs, Chair of the Optica Awards Council and VP Director at Large, VP at asphericon, will host the ceremony on 1 October in Málaga! The Optica i4 Prizes recognize outstanding global achievements that have made a significant and lasting impact on our industry, celebrating innovation, integrity, inclusivity, and influence. Ulrike will lead this special ceremony at the forum in Málaga, Spain. Join us in shaping the future of photonics! Register here: https://ow.ly/Jh5S50RK4Xp

An ICFO team proposes a pattern-free heterostructure that breaks Kirchhoff’s law of thermal radiation in transmission mode, for both linear polarizations with a broad range of angles of incidence and emission: https://bit.ly/47aVJ3W The heterostructure enables nonreciprocal thermal emission using a magneto-optical material embedded between two dissimilar dielectric layers. The proposed device can act as a preferential thermal emitter for either linear polarization or as a polarization-controlled optical circulator. Written by: Michela F. Picardi, Vera I. Moerbeek, Mariano Pascale, and Georgia T. Papadakis

This new smartphone-based digital holographic microscope enables precision 3D measurements: https://bit.ly/3XrNmwG Existing digital holographic microscopes typically quire complex systems, making them difficult to transport or use outdoors. The new microscope from the Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology uses a simple optical system with a 3D printer and a calculation syustem based on a smartphone to make it inexpensive, portable, and useful for widespread applications. Published in Applied Optics [#OPG_AO], the microscope provides a portable way to perform 3D measurements, which could be useful for field research, education, medical diagnostics and more. #3D #microscopes #holography #technology #scienceandtechnology