WaveFront Dynamics Inc. (WDI), a venture backed company and pioneer in wavefront sensing technology for use in measuring and perfecting visual performance, today announced the appointment of Tom ...

It’s a question I’m sure was keeping you up at night: can you make an object spin with a sound wave? The answer, generally speaking, used to be no. Now, though, mechanical engineers have taken a look ...

Ultrafast science has made great advances in recent years. Attosecond pulses with photon energies lying in the soft X-ray range corresponding to the fundamental absorption edges of matter permit the ...

A study by researchers from the Institute of Applied Physics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, published in Nature Photonics, presents a new method for non-invasive high-resolution imaging ...

Yes, it can! This is one facet of adaptive optics, which astronomical observatories can use to compensate for distortions in astronomical images caused by our atmosphere. Let’s set the stage first: ...

Lithium niobate (LN) powers a newly developed optical metasurface for shaping and guiding light waves. Leveraging the electro-optical effect of lithium niobate, the device applies different electric ...

Palo Alto-based monitoring company Wavefront today announced it has raised $52 million in Series B funding led by existing investors Sequoia Capital and Sutter Hill Ventures as well as new investor ...

Wavefront shaping is a promising approach to deep tissue imaging. Until now, it was possible only via an invasive approach: fluorescent points were manually inserted into the sample, and the tissue ...

The micrometeoroid that hit the James Webb Space Telescope in May caused significantly more damage than expected and will have a lasting impact on the telescope’s observations, according to a NASA ...

Lasik surgery is one method of correcting focusing problems of the eye called refractive errors. The most common refractive errors are nearsightedness or myopia (difficulty seeing distant objects as ...