Conventional curved lenses, which direct light by refraction in glass or plastic, are often bulky and heavy, offering only limited control of light waves. Metasurfaces, in contrast, are flat and ...

Laser triangulation sensors function by the principle of geometric triangulation. This concept involves a beam produced by a ...

Pioneering new research could help unlock exciting new potential to create ultrafast, laser-driven storage devices. The study ...

Current industrial CT scanners are not only massive and costly, but they produce images with millimeter scale resolution. The team’s laser-driven approach generates a much smaller X-ray source, ...

Researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) have unveiled a new optical technology that enables precise ...

Remember DVDs? If you don’t, you’re making me feel ancient! Jokes aside, DVDs (Digital Video Discs) were once the go-to ...

Scientists have found a way to store hundreds of terabytes of data onto a tiny crystal, with plans to scale this up to a disc-sized device that can be compatible with modern computing.

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Disc rot (sometimes referred to as laser rot) is the tendency of CDs, DVDs and other optical discs to oxidise underneath the reflective layer, causing the adhesive to de-bond and often resulting ...

But for our money, a good Blu-ray is much more convenient—that is, unless the disc was a Warner Bros. release produced between 2006 and 2008. A rash of disc rot plaguing discs produced by ...

Some Warner Bros. Discs Have Started Rotting Away You might be eligible for a replacement or a refund, depending on whether your malfunctioning DVD is still in print. By Will McCurdy ...

Institute of High Pressure Physics Polish Academy of Sciences, Sokolowska 29/37, 01-142 Warsaw, Poland ...