Fiber optics couple laser light directly into the ion-trap chip. When in use, the chip is cooled to cryogenic temperatures in a vacuum chamber, and…
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The integrated detector combines a silicon photonic chip with a silicon micro-electronics chip, yielding advanced speed in detecting quantum light. Credit: University of Bristol Researchers…
A scanning electron microscope (SEM) image of a terahertz quantum cascade laser (QCL) device. Credit: Courtesy of the researchers The instrument could bring powerful sensing…
Scientists Capture Light in a Polymeric Quasicrystal – New Possibilities for Laser and Sensor Design
Scientists Capture Light in a Polymeric Quasicrystal – New Possibilities for Laser and Sensor Design
Credit: Ant Rozetsky ITMO University scientists have conducted several experiments to investigate polymeric quasicrystals that ultimately confirmed their initial theory. In the future, the use…
Illustration of memory effects on wave-matter interaction. From Fig. 1, Kozlov et al., doi: 10.1117/1.AP.2.5.056003. Credit: Kozlov et al. Remembrance of Waves Past: Memory Imprints…
Electrically pumped surface plasmon-polariton nanolaser. Credit: Dmitry Fedyanin Researchers from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology and King’s College London cleared the obstacle that…
Straining a honeycomb metasurface generates an artificial magnetic field for light which can be tuned by embedding the metasurface inside a cavity waveguide. Credit: University…
New hollow-core optical fibers that are filled with either air or gas. Credit: Alain Herzog/2020 EPFL “The idea had been going around my head for…
This graphic depicts a stylized rendering of the quantum photonic chip and its assembly process. The bottom half of the image shows a functioning quantum…
NANF polarization holding. Credit: University of Southampton The novel fibers’ latest advances, published recently in Nature Photonics, have underlined the technology’s potential for next-generation optical…
Australian and German researchers build modular bridge design for nanoscale photonic chip. Photonic chips have huge potential for the future of computers and telecommunications. Australian…
(Click image for full view.) A bilayer of molybdenum trioxides supports highly collimated, directive, and diffractionless propagation of nano-light when the two layers are aligned…
The nonlinear microresonator converts a single wavelength pump coming in from the left into a rainbow of frequency combs. The combs exit to the waveguide…
A design for the photonic structure that traps two photons. Photons travel in the horizontal direction, one into each arm of the cross. The holes…
A team at UPV’s Nanophotonics Technology Center has discovered a new fundamental symmetry in electromagnetism, acoustics and elasticity laws: a temporal supersymmetry. Credit: UPV A…
A look inside the Metal Organic Vapor Phase Epitaxy (MOVPE). This machine was used to grow nanowires with hexagonal silicon-germanium shells. The emission from this…
Simple chip powered by quantum dots allows standard microscopes to visualize difficult-to-image biological organisms. Credit: Felice Frankel Simple chip powered by quantum dots allows standard…
Dead and alive: Schrödinger’s cat is entangled with an atom. If the atom is excited, the cat is alive. If it has decayed, the cat…