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All-Optical Switch Enables Faster Fiber-Optic Communication

A team of researchers led by the University of Michigan demonstrated an ultrafast all-optical switch in a study published in Nature Communications.

21 Oct 2024

New Metasurface Technology Controls Light for Secure Data Transmission

Compared to traditional optical technologies, metasurface technology offers more advanced, lighter, and precise light control using nanometer-sized artificial structures. Researchers at KAIST have developed a Janus metasurface capable of precisely managing asymmetric light transmission, addressing the limitations of existing metasurface technologies. The study was published in Advanced Materials.

17 Oct 2024

New Tool Unveils Partial Coherence in Photonic Networks

A Stanford University team has created a tool that can automatically analyze the partial coherence of multimode spatial light fields, according to a study published in Light: Science & Applications.

17 Oct 2024

Twisted Light Fields Reveal Hidden Properties of Materials

Researchers from Tampere University have observed small deformations in light reflection from complexly structured light fields, contradicting the expectation of an exact image provided by a perfectly flat mirror.

3 Oct 2024

New Technique Reveals Secrets of Anisotropic Materials

Researchers at the European Laboratory for Nonlinear Spectroscopy (LENS) have presented a novel method for the investigation of anisotropic materials in a recent study that was published in Advanced Photonics Nexus.

18 Sep 2024

Superior Light-to-Chemical Energy Conversion with Coulombic Dyads

Scientists in Mainz established a novel photocatalyst class that uses precious metals more efficiently.

12 Sep 2024

Optically Programmed Terahertz Devices for Next-Generation Applications

A group of researchers, from the Institute for Quantum Science and Technology, College of Science, National University of Defense Technology, have combined photonic crystals—arranged Distributed Bragg Reflector microstrips—with terahertz metal metasurface to create an optically controlled terahertz 2-bit encoding device.

3 Sep 2024

Efficient VLWIR Photodetectors for Remote Sensing

Researchers at the Beijing Institute of Technology, China, under the direction of Professor Dr. Menglu Chen from the School of Optics and Photonics, have created VLWIR and LWIR photodetectors using semimetal HgTe CQDs. This research was published in the journal Light Science & Applications.

2 Sep 2024

Physicists Use Light to Probe Deeper Into The ‘Invisible’ Energy States of Molecules

A team led by scientists at the University of Bath discovers how light particles can be used to reveal the ‘hidden’ energy states of molecules, solving a 45-year-old scientific mystery.

From University of Bath 2 Aug 2024

Ultra-Low Threshold Lasing in Organic Polymer Blend Microspheres with the Highest Q Factor

Dielectric optical microresonators confine and concentrate light in a tiny circular path due to multiple near total internal reflections at the curved dielectric-air interface, where light interferes constructively for certain wavelengths.

From IMDEA Nanociencia 24 Jul 2024

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