We take for granted, today, that the Universe is transparent to light, and that the light from distant objects can travel unimpeded through space before reaching our eyes. But it wasn't always ...

When a light beam of time-independent intensity hits a transparent object, the light does not get absorbed but is scattered by the material -- a phenomenon caused by the unitary property of the ...

Over a year ago, a new camera stunned the world with its ability to snap 10 trillion frames per second. That speed made it ...

Light would then bounce back and forth between the two mirrors, passing through the light absorbing surface multiple times. But it isn’t quite that simple. For such a device to work, the front mirror ...

But infrared light passes right through clear objects and scatters off reflective surfaces. Thus, depth cameras can't calculate an accurate shape, resulting in largely flat or hole-riddled shapes ...

For example, if a beam of light passes through a piece of glass, it will slow down as it enters the glass and then speed up again as it exits. Those changes in speed alter the timing of the waves.

"A light wave can enter and exit the object, but will never pass through the medium on a straight line," Rotter said in a statement. "Instead, it is scattered into all possible directions." With ...

The distinctive advantage of light tweezers is that, unlike mechanical tweezers, they can exert forces or torques even when grabbing through transparent objects.

Caltech scientists have invented an ultrafast camera that is capable of taking 1 trillion frames per second of transparent objects. The invention comes after the… ...

Due to the deflection of light rays on the transparent medium, 3D imaging an object using traditional vision methods based on triangulation produces large measurement errors.