Researchers from Australia’s University of Queensland have made a microscopic “ocean” on a silicon chip to miniaturise the ...

University of Queensland researchers have created a microscopic "ocean" on a silicon chip to miniaturize the study of wave ...

Figure 1: The WEBTOP Waves module simulating the interference of the waves in a ripple tank caused by two small oscillating plungers at the back end of the tank. The last 20 years has been a ...

Researchers have developed a new class of integrated photonic devices -- 'leaky-wave metasurfaces' -- that convert light initially confined in an optical waveguide to an arbitrary optical pattern in ...

Metasurfaces are two-dimensional (2D), nanoengineered surfaces that interact strongly with electromagnetic waves and can ...

Due to come online later this year and packed with state-of-the-art optics, Advanced LIGO is aiming for a direct detection of gravitational waves that will open a new window on the universe, say Iain ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about physics, science, academia, and pop culture. But to some extent this goes to Englehardt's point, because the ...

In “What is Light?”, we described light as both a wave and a particle under the conditions of the wave-particle duality. In the previous posts, we have mostly modeled light as a ray when discussing ...

Wave dynamics in magnetised plasmas and the associated geometrical optics framework constitute a rapidly evolving area of research, combining fundamental physics with practical applications in ...

Holographic images: the two figures on the left are two holographic images produced by a leaky-wave metasurface at two different distances from the device surface. The other figures are distinct ...

The UK’s Royal Astronomical Society (RAS) has awarded its highest honor to University of Glasgow professor and optics expert Jim Hough. Hough won the Gold Medal, whose past recipients include the ...