Spectral measurement, spectral analysis and spectroscopic instruments, including Fourier transform infrared, infrared spectral detection and related standards.
Researchers integrated gallium phosphide (GaP) nanophotonic cavities onto diamond substrates via a stamp-transfer process, enhancing quantum optical interactions with diamond color centers. The devices were first fabricated in a GaP thin film on a carrier using electron-beam lithography, screened spectroscopically, and then transferred; the experiments achieved cooperativity greater than 1. The platform could serve as a light–matter interface in quantum networks.
Why we recommend it: The original article describes the heterogeneous integration process and the screening-and-transfer workflow, offering useful guidance for fabricating diamond color-center quantum photonic devices.
Researchers have developed a model that accounts for age-related changes in color vision and simulates different lighting configurations to improve color perception for older adults. The results were published by Optica on October 13, 2026.
Why we recommend it: The original explains the relationship between lighting spectra and color vision in older age, helping to understand the role of spectral design in healthy lighting
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A team led by Researcher Wang Quan at the Biomedical Spectroscopy Laboratory of the Xi'an Institute of Optics and Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, has achieved wireless near-infrared optogenetic pain relief using upconversion nanoparticles. The research was recently highlighted in a dedicated commentary in Nature Photonics. Optogenetics received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine on October 5, 2026.
Why we recommend it: The original work applies upconversion nanoparticles to wireless near-infrared optogenetics, offering reference value for biophotonics applications
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The High-precision Main Greenhouse gas Imaging instrument (HMI) aboard the Pujiang-4 satellite began imaging on September 27 and downlinked its first data. The instrument's developer, Xiong Wei's team at the Anhui Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics (AIOFM), conducted a preliminary assessment showing that the payload's functions and performance meet design requirements. HMI uses an information modulation technique combining spatial imaging and spectral interferometry; in a 520 km orbit it acquires hyperspectral data with a 30 km swath, spatial resolution better than 400 m, and spectral resolution better than 0.125 nm. Based on the first data, the team preliminarily estimated the methane emission rate of the Bogatyr open-pit mine in Kazakhstan at about 27.52±1.70 tons per hour.
Why we recommend it: The original article gives HMI's swath width, spatial resolution and spectral resolution, and uses the first data to estimate methane emission rates at a mining site, showing the on-orbit performance of the combined spatial imaging and spectral interferometry scheme.
A team at DTU Electro, Technical University of Denmark, has made progress in ultra-low-noise supercontinuum lasers, nearly doubling the spectral range compared with similar low-noise sources by heat-treating the fiber.
Researcher Tian Ye and Academician Li Ruxin's team at the Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics (SIOM), together with Researcher Pan Yiming of ShanghaiTech University and others, have proposed a new mechanism that uses the quadratic phase accumulated during the propagation of free-electron quantum wave packets to simultaneously achieve selectable high-harmonic bunching and synthesis of non-classical quantum light sources, linking quantum state control, high-harmonic radiation and quantum light synthesis.
Why we recommend it: The original work proposes a unified framework for free-electron lasers and quantum light sources, offering useful insights for novel light source research
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A team from the High-Power Laser Component Technology and Engineering Department at the Shanghai Institute of Optics and Mechanics used nanoimprint lithography to fabricate large-area, double-sided fused-silica nanopillar metasurfaces, achieving broadband, wide-angle antireflection from the visible to the near-infrared, along with good high-temperature stability and laser damage tolerance.
Why we recommend it: The original paper presents a scalable nanoimprint process and laser damage tolerance, offering practical value for high-power laser optics
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A team at the Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics has proposed and demonstrated a lithography-free Cr/a-GST/Bi planar metal-insulator-metal absorber based on ultrahigh-refractive-index materials. With a total thickness of only 550 nm, it achieves high absorption and thermal emission control across the 8-14 μm long-wave infrared band.
Why we recommend it: The original work presents a lithography-free, ultrathin long-wave infrared absorber structure that is relevant to infrared stealth and thermal management devices
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A team from the State Key Laboratory of Ultra-Intense Laser Science and Technology at the Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics (SIOM) has achieved few-cycle nonlinear pulse compression in a dispersion-engineered folded multi-pass cell, producing high-power few-cycle ultrafast laser pulses. The results were published in Optics Letters.
Why we recommend it: The original article presents a multi-pass cell compression scheme for few-cycle pulses, offering useful reference for high-power ultrafast lasers
Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics (SIOM) · Research UpdatesOptics industryPicksAI score6161
A team from the State Key Laboratory of Ultra-Intense Laser Science and Technology at the Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics (SIOM) has achieved, for the first time, fully optical arbitrary control of chirality and ellipticity in solid-state high-harmonic generation through dynamical symmetry engineering and quantum geometric phase manipulation.
Why we recommend it: The original work presents an all-optical method for controlling the polarization of solid-state high harmonics, relevant to attosecond circularly polarized light sources
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A VR Tuoluo article notes that metalenses had a noticeably higher profile at CIOE 2026, where NIL Technology showcased metaEye for AR/VR eye tracking. The article maps the commercialization path for metalenses in eye tracking, ToF and AI glasses.
Why we recommend it: The original article lists specific metalens applications in XR, helping gauge how far metasurfaces have progressed from the lab to products
Researchers from Switzerland, China and Russia fabricated a 1 cm² chip wafer containing 49 silicon metasurfaces for high-speed modulation of mid-infrared lasers.
A paper in Light: Science & Applications combines dual-comb spectroscopy with computational ghost imaging and uses deep-learning reconstruction to achieve hyperspectral imaging.
A team led by Shao Jianda and Zhu Meiping has used an Al₂O₃/HfO₂ nanolaminate graded-index structure to improve the laser-induced damage resistance of picosecond laser reflection thin films.
Xie Peng's team at the Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics (SIOM) studies soliton generation and breather dynamics in microcavity optical frequency combs.
Xie Peng's team at the Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics (SIOM) has made progress in multidimensional multiplexed optical computing, improving the parallelism of optical computing.
Liu Hongjun's team at the Xi'an Institute of Optics and Precision Mechanics has made progress in metasurface-based nonlinear frequency upconversion imaging in the mid-infrared.
The Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics has proposed a configurational entropy engineering strategy that enables ultra-broadband emission in bismuth-doped glass fiber.