An optical illusion is a visual phenomenon in which our perception of an image differs from objective reality. This image is seen as an optical illusion illustration set in a peaceful park. These ...

Scientists have unveiled a new way to capture ultra-sharp optical images without lenses or painstaking alignment. The approach uses multiple sensors to collect raw light patterns independently, then ...

A hidden dog optical illusion shared on Reddit puzzled users.

An illustration of the UW-led research team’s integrated optical computing chip and “handwritten” numbers it generated. The chip contains an artificial neural network that can learn how to write like ...

Artists and scientists have been creating optical illusions for centuries. Here are 35 mind-bending examples that prove you can't always trust what your eyes are telling you. When you purchase through ...

A new lens-free imaging system uses software to see finer details from farther away than optical systems ever could before.

See Insets (i), (ii), and (iii) that expand and match the mode fields of the different components and enable low-loss coupling with relaxed alignment tolerances. Coupling between a single-mode fiber ...