On-chip light source produces versatile range of wavelengths
Silicon-based device may enable variety of photonic applicationsCredit: Xiyuan Lu, NIST/University of Maryland, inspired by the "Olympic rings. " WASHINGTON ...
Tag: Optics
Martin, Pappu, Yang among most highly-cited researchers worldwide
Washington University ranks seventh in the world for its number of highly-cited researchersCredit: Washington University in St. Louis Randall Martin, ...
A new playbook for interference
NIST scientists correlate photon pairs of different colors generated in separate buildingsCredit: S. Kelley/NIST Particles can sometimes act like waves, ...
Turning light energy into heat to fight disease
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Artificial intelligence may help scientists make spray-on solar cells
Credit: UCF, Karen Norum Artificial Intelligence may be just the thing to accelerate spray-on solar cell technology, which could revolutionize ...
Get ready for a new periodic table
Researchers at Hebrew University combine quantum dot 'atoms' and create new 'molecules'Credit: Meirav Oded and Somnath Koley. Are you ready ...
City College leads new photonics breakthrough
Credit: ITMO University A new approach to trapping light in artificial photonic materials by a City College of New York-led ...
Simultaneous emission of orthogonal handedness in circular polarization
Credit: by Kyungmin Baek, Dong-Myung Lee, Yu-Jin Lee, Hyunchul Choi, Jeongdae Seo, Inbyeong Kang, Chang-Jae Yu, and Jae-Hoon Kim Control ...
Demonstration of ultrafast and energy-efficient all-optical switching with graphene and plasmonic waveguides
Progress toward photonic integrated circuits for ultrafast information processingCredit: NTT, Tokyo Tech Background Optical switches will be important components in ...
Chinese team makes nanoscopy breakthrough
New technique may be used to image living cellsCredit: WANG Zhongyang A Chinese research team has developed an advanced imaging ...
Cheers! Maxwell’s electromagnetism extended to smaller scales
Credit: Marin Soljači Research Group More than one hundred and fifty years have passed since the publication of James Clerk ...
NSF grants Illinois-led team $4.4 million to develop distributed space telescope
Credit: Coordinated Science Laboratory, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign More than 91 million miles from Earth, the sun poses a ...
Multiplication and division of the orbital angular momentum of light
Credit: Credited by Dr. Gianluca Ruffato,Dr.Michele Massari , Prof.Filippo Romanato Optical beams carrying orbital angular momentum (OAM) have attracted a ...
Quantum expander for gravitational-wave observatories
Credit: by Mikhail Korobko Ultra-stable laser light that was stored in optical resonators of up to 4km length enabled the ...
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