Nature is filled with remarkable visual phenomena created by microscopic surface structures that interact with light in ...

Design of an optical system, whether classic or novel, in the past or the present, requires significant effort from the designer. In addition to design methods and theories, the designer’s skills and ...

Whether you are simulating a lens, an optical communications system or a car headlamp, optical software can help you reach the optimum design. Neil Savage takes a look at some of the latest packages ...

Keysight Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: KEYS) today announced that it completed the acquisition of VPIphotonics on June 9, 2026, adding system-level simulation to its photonic design automation portfolio ...

The painstaking process of designing optical lenses for imaging systems is poised for a dramatic transformation thanks to a groundbreaking AI-powered method developed by researchers at King Abdullah ...

Independent publisher Counter-Print has released Optic, a new book on the history of optical illusions in graphic design and how this craft has developed over the years. The inception of Op Art came ...

A team of researchers at Penn State have devised a new, streamlined approach to designing metasurfaces, a class of engineered materials that can manipulate light and other forms of electromagnetic ...

Researchers demonstrated a new optical atomic clock that uses a single laser and doesn't require cryogenic temperatures. By greatly reducing the size and complexity of atomic clocks without ...

Our pick of the best optical illusions of all time will leave you amazed and confused in equal measure.

The Oslo Optical Design Software guide is a basic optical primer and full set of step-by-step examples. Containing over 100 pages, the guide covers how to enter, analyze, and design optical systems in ...

OSLO for lens system design and optimisation and TracePro for modeling and analyzing the propagation of light in imaging and non-imaging optical and opto-mechanical systems. TracePro is our ...