In optical communications, laser pulses are used to transmit information along fiber-optic cables for telephone service,…

A recent study demonstrates the rapid control of phase-changes in resonantly bonded materials

In a study recently published in Nature Materials, researchers have demonstrated how the material and electro-optical pr…

The Acton 193nm XL coating is a multilayer dielectric coating that combines a hybrid structure with balanced stress opti…

Partnership of government, industry, and academia will pursue integration of optical devices with electronics.

Technologies that can help to integrate photonics, or light-based communications and computation, with existing electron…

Enhanced Cylindrical Lens Line Includes a Range of Materials from DUV to FIR

Cylindrical lenses focus incoming light in one dimension only. They are used in applications where a point image needs t…

At the heart of the high-technology applications of plasmons is their unique ability to confine the energy of a photon i…

The cool mode material is a major step toward a commercialized product because it enables control of 90 percent of NIR a…

A robust integrated photonics manufacturing industry would boost the economy and result in energy-efficient, higher-performance computing and telecommunications

A robust integrated photonics manufacturing industry would boost the economy and result in energy-efficient, higher-perf…

USING THE ENVIRONMENT TO PROVIDE FAST CONTROL OF AN ATOM-OPTICAL SYSTEM

The quantum speed limit describes the maximum rate at which a quantum system, here the quantized field of the optical ca…

In the new paper, published in the July 20 edition of Optica, University of Rochester researchers show that a classical…

Plasmonic device has speed and efficiency to serve optical computers

Researchers have developed an ultrafast light-emitting device that can flip on and off 90 billion times a second and cou…

Researchers at the Niels Bohr Institute have developed a photonic chip, in which a light source – a so-called quantum do…

The researchers first grew single, nanometer-thick layers of molybdenum diselenide crystals on substrates and then depos…

Stony Brook physicist and colleagues demonstrate “superdense teleportation” method works

The researchers developed entangled elementary particles – in this case photons, the smallest units of light – to transm…

UD team awarded $1 million Keck Foundation grant for novel research on light

They want to design a new kind of semiconductor nanostructure that will act like a ratchet. It will absorb two red photo…

Light that is polarized clockwise causes current to flow in one direction, while counter-clockwise polarized light makes…

Many cloaks are lossy because they are made with metal particles, which absorb light. The researchers report that one of…

Absorbers are completely transparent at non-operational frequencies.

The researchers at the Aalto University Department of Radio Science and Engineering have demonstrated the first realizat…

Layered semiconducting black arsenic phosphorus as an alternative to silicon

With an arsenic concentration of 83 percent the material exhibits an extremely small band gap of only 0.15 electron volt…

Light becomes trapped as it orbits within tiny granules of a crystalline material that has increasingly intrigued physic…