Comb on a Chip

26th June 2020 by Leave a Comment

New design for optical ruler could revolutionize clocks, telescopes and telecommunications

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Counting Photons for SI-Standards

14th January 2020 by Leave a Comment

New method to measure the detection efficiency of single-photon detectors at wavelengths near 851 nm and 1533.6 nm

Filed Under: Calibration, Detectors, Light Sources, Measurement Technologies, Optical Sensors, Photonics, Quantum Photonics, Research News, Sensors, Spectroscopy, Uncategorised Tagged With: , , ,

On-Chip Light Source Produces Range of Wavelengths

27th December 2019 by Leave a Comment

Silicon-based device may enable variety of photonic applications

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Nanohighway for Light

22nd November 2019 by Leave a Comment

Tiny low-energy optical switch rapidly reroutes light in computer chips

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Brighter Future for LEDs

13th September 2019 by Leave a Comment

NIST Introduces new lamp calibration lab

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Self-Torque – A New Property of Light

1st July 2019 by Leave a Comment

Generation of optical vortices in the EUV by adjusting the temporal separation of two infrared vortex beams

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Infrared Frequency Comb Measures Biological Signatures

13th June 2019 by Leave a Comment

New approach unites a compact source of phase-stable, single-cycle, mid-infrared pulses with room temperature electric field

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Sculpting Super-Fast Light Pulses

7th May 2019 by Leave a Comment

A metasurface with nanopillars shapes light precisely for practical applications

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New Super-Accurate Optical Atomic Clock

15th April 2019 by Leave a Comment

Progress towards an optically defined second could improve advanced communication and the search for new physics

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Boosting Intensity of Nanowire LEDs

9th April 2019 by Leave a Comment

UV-LEDs with a special type of shell produce five times higher light intensity than comparable LEDs

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