DigiLens, creators of waveguide optics, today announced a “deeper” partnership with Mitsubishi Chemical to bring a plastic version of its waveguide technology to the market. The companies claim the ...

DigiLens, a maker of waveguide optics for AR glasses, today announced a second close of its Series D funding round, claiming a $530 million valuation. DigiLens is one of several companies building ...

Snapchat operator Snap Inc. is spending more than $500 million to acquire Wave Optics Ltd., better known as WaveOptics, a U.K.-based maker of displays and other optical components for augmented ...

Extended reality (XR) optics and glasses developer DigiLens has signed a memorandum of understanding with the Consolidated Nuclear Security (CNS) consortium to advance waveguides and head-up display ...

Ultrathin structures that can bend, focus, or filter light, metasurfaces are reshaping how scientists think about optics. These engineered materials offer precise control over lights behavior, but ...

Kinko Optical Co., LTD. (Kinko), a leading Asian original design manufacturer (ODM), has adopted Beneq's C2R™ plasma-enhanced spatial ALD system. This move positions Kinko for high-volume production ...

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 ...

(Nanowerk Spotlight) The concepts of metamaterials and metasurfaces have spawned massive novel applications in free-space optics. However, recent research also indicates that they possess prominent ...

Quantum optics and waveguide quantum electrodynamics represent rapidly evolving frontiers at the intersection of photonics and quantum science. These disciplines explore the fundamental interactions ...

Tubular laser beams can create what amount to fiber-optic cables made of thin air, researchers report in a study to appear in Physical Review X. Laser-heated air can efficiently transmit light signals ...