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A Liquid Crystal Walks into an Optical Resonator: New Skoltech Research Helps Model Future Optoelectronic Devices

Researchers at Skoltech and their colleagues proposed a photonic device from two optical resonators with liquid crystals inside them to study optical properties of this system that can be useful for future generations of optoelectronic and spinoptronic devices. The paper was published in the journal Physical Review B.

9 Mar 2021

Electroluminescence at Terahertz Frequencies may Lead to Silicon-Based Lasers

Among all the chemical elements, silicon is the one that stands apart especially where microelectronics is concerned.

9 Mar 2021

New Flat Optics Could Revolutionize Older, Bulk Optics-Based Technologies

Associate Professor Andrea Fratalocchi from KAUST has headed a group of researchers and found that silicon nanoshapes serve as feed-forward neural networks that can be trained in a supervised learning model to carry out user-defined tasks at the speed of light.

9 Mar 2021

Radiation Resistant Lens for Low Light Applications

Manufactured from specially selected non-browning glass – the Model 313-000 fixed focus lens from Resolve Optics has an aperture of f/1.4 to enable as much light as possible to be gathered and transmitted to the sensor.

From Resolve Optics Ltd. 9 Mar 2021

Sheaumann to Participate at Photonics West Digital Marketplace 2021 and Host Special Digital Event March 8-11

Sheaumann will be attending (albeit virtually) the Photonics West 2021 digital forum. The world’s premier lasers, biomedical optics, and optoelectronics event.

From Sheaumann Laser, Inc. 8 Mar 2021

Researchers Reveal How Materials Become Harder When Illuminated by Light

Semiconductor materials play an indispensable role in our modern information-oriented society. For reliable performance of semiconductor devices, these materials need to have superior mechanical properties: they must be strong as well as resistant to fracture, despite being rich in nanoscale structures.

8 Mar 2021

Researchers Develop New Way to Modulate and Enhance a Nonlinear Optical Process

Nonlinear optics, a study of how light interacts with matter, is critical to many photonic applications, from the green laser pointers we're all familiar with to intense broadband (white) light sources for quantum photonics that enable optical quantum computing, super-resolution imaging, optical sensing and ranging, and more.

5 Mar 2021

Nanoscale Holographic Perceptrons for Performing Optical Inference Tasks on a CMOS Chip

Intelligent holographic nanostructures on CMOS sensors for energy-efficient AI security schemes

5 Mar 2021

New Method Enables Control of Single Photons Without Generating Heat

In a potential boost for quantum computing and communication, a European research collaboration reported a new method of controlling and manipulating single photons without generating heat. The solution makes it possible to integrate optical switches and single-photon detectors in a single chip.

4 Mar 2021

Giant Optical Anisotropy Measured in Layered Molybdenum Disulfide Crystals

For the first time, scientists from the Center for Photonics and Two-Dimensional Materials at Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT) have successfully measured enormous optical anisotropy in layered molybdenum disulfide crystals.

4 Mar 2021