To further hone the image, engineers use a technique called optical proximity correction, which uses oddly shaped bars, notches and other distortions that are cut into the chrome template on the quartz plate to trick light waves into making a more precise pattern (see left).

FORBES: Trick Of The Light

To further hone the image, engineers use a technique called optical proximity correction, which uses oddly shaped bars, notches and other distortions that are cut into the chrome template on the quartz plate to trick light waves into making a more precise pattern (see chart).

FORBES: Trick of the Light

WDM, a technique that allows a single optical path to carry thousands of parallel channels, as long as each is encoded in a slightly different colour.

ECONOMIST: Optical communications

Nanotechnology techniques such as self-assembling promise researchers an intriguing alternative to continuing to refine the most commonly used technique for building transistors on silicon computer chips, namely, optical lithography.

FORBES: Magazine Article

The nanoparticle self-assembly technique opens up the possibility of creating metamaterials with new magneto-optical properties.

ECONOMIST: MONITOR

The advantage of the rival NTT technique, says Saruwatari Masatoshi, a senior researcher at the company's Optical Network Systems Laboratories, is that it uses only a single light source.

CNN: THE INTERNET