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New, Compact Photonic Isolator Uses Sound Waves to Rein in Light

Light offers an irreplaceable way to interact with our universe. It can travel across galactic distances and collide with our atmosphere, creating a shower of particles that tell a story of past astronomical events.

22 Oct 2021

Magnetic-Free, Electrically Driven Optical Isolator Enables Light Routing on a Chip

Integrated photonics allow us to build compact, portable, low-power chip-scale optical systems used in commercial products, revolutionizing today's optical datacenters and communications.

22 Oct 2021

Researchers Realize On-Chip Optical Levitation in a Vacuum with Ultrathin Metalens

Researchers have created tiny chip-based optical tweezers that can be used to optically levitate nanoparticles in a vacuum.

22 Oct 2021

Researchers Develop a Novel Approach to Design, Fabricate Thin-Film Infrared Light Sources

Vanderbilt and Penn State engineers have developed a novel approach to design and fabricate thin-film infrared light sources with near-arbitrary spectral output driven by heat, along with a machine learning methodology called inverse design that reduced the optimization time for these devices from weeks or months on a multi-core computer to a few minutes on a consumer-grade desktop.

22 Oct 2021

Chip-Based Optical Tweezers Levitate Nanoparticles in a Vacuum

Researchers have created tiny chip-based optical tweezers that can be used to optically levitate nanoparticles in a vacuum.

21 Oct 2021

Luxinar Welcomes Careers Collaboration on Day of Photonics

Careers Enterprise Co-ordinator and Women into Manufacturing representative Kerrie Jaquest visited leading laser manufacturer Luxinar to explore opportunities to promote careers in the laser industry to schoolchildren.

From Luxinar Ltd 21 Oct 2021

Frequency Translating Add/Drop Filters Could Open New Avenues for On-Chip Light Manipulation

Researchers report the development of frequency translating add/drop filters based on electro-optically modulated photonic molecules.

20 Oct 2021

21 October to Celebrate Day of Photonics 2021

DAY OF PHOTONICS is an annual event that promotes “photonics” towards the general public.

19 Oct 2021

Using Light to Control Quantum Materials

An international team with participation of the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI shows how light can fundamentally change the properties of solids

19 Oct 2021

Researchers Discuss Advanced III-V-on-Silicon Photonic Integration

A new study led by researchers Yingtao Hu, Di Liang and, Raymond G. Beausoleil from Hewlett Packard Labs, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Milpitas, CA, USA, discusses advanced III-V-on-silicon photonic integration.

19 Oct 2021