For the first time, a team of researchers from the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Optics and Precision Engineering IOF and the University of New Mexico have succeeded in cooling silica glass by ...

Choosing the best spotting scope tripod can be tricky. It can be tempting to go for something ultra-cheap – which isn't difficult to find – but there's definitely such a thing as false economy when it ...

Over the last few years, I've had the opportunity to work with Tippmann Arms' top-quality M4-22 series rimfire rifles. Patterned after the M4-style AR-15s ... The matte-black handguards are made from ...

Micro-optics are optical systems that are between a few micrometres and a millimetre in size. This includes small lenses or arrays of lenses, or optical fibres with a microscale core diameter.

In the past, you used to have to shell out hundreds, if not thousands, of dollars to get a really great rifle scope. Thankfully, those days are gone. Advancements in scope technology have come a ...

Quantum optics is the study of how individual quanta of light, known as photons, interact with atoms and molecules. This includes studying the particle-like properties of photons. Photons have ...

Co-packaged optics (CPO)—the silicon photonics technology promising to transform modern data centers and high-performance networks by addressing critical challenges like bandwidth density, energy ...