Giant Modulation of Visible Light

5th December 2018 by Leave a Comment

Nanoantennas made of achiral gold half-rings produce scattering modulation

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Metasurface Corrects Chromatic Aberrations

22nd November 2018 by Leave a Comment

A single-layer surface of nanostructures can be incorporated into commercial optical systems

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Bending Light Around Tight Corners

21st November 2018 by Leave a Comment

A new photonic crystal waveguide paves the way to build futuristic light-based computers

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Optical Lenses out of 2D Materials

14th November 2018 by Leave a Comment

Ultrathin dielectric metalenses made of van der Waals materials

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Quantum Light From Superlattices

9th November 2018 by Leave a Comment

Superfluorescence from perovskite quantum dot superlattices

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Folding Optical Devices

31st October 2018 by Leave a Comment

New platform uses multiple metasurface elements that are fabricated in a single step

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Long-Lived Nanolight in a 2D Material

30th October 2018 by Leave a Comment

In-plane anisotropic polaritons could enable directional and strong light–matter interactions

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Synchrotron Radiation in a Crystal

26th October 2018 by Leave a Comment

A new device accommodates speed along circular paths producing terahertz radiation

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Topological Insulators for Optoelectronics

17th October 2018 by Leave a Comment

An exciton-polariton topological insulator made of coupled semiconductor microcavities

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Metalens Enables Full-Color Imaging

10th October 2018 by Leave a Comment

First flat lens for focusing a large range of colors of any polarization to the same focal spot

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