One important factor in increasing the sensitivity of the observatories involves the coatings on the glass mirrors that lie at the heart of the instruments.

Highly precise 3D structures in black can now be printed using a 2-photon polymerization (2PP) 3D printing process. This seemed for a long time impossible as non...

A team from the Diamond Light Source set about creating a brand-new instrument which can potentially improve the toolbox for metrologists and manufacturers around the...

Lasers are ubiquitous. Scientists from Würzburg have now developed the virtual-reality laser laboratory “femtoPro”, which simulates optical setups in real time and...