The World’s Smallest Optical Gyroscope

5th November 2018 by Leave a Comment

Prototype is 500 times smaller than the current state-of-the-art device

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Optical Filter on a Chip

3rd August 2018 by Leave a Comment

Filters with cutoffs around 1550 and 2100 nm are fabricated on a silicon-on-insulator platform

Filed Under: Filters, Nanophotonics, Optical Communication, Optical Materials, Photonic Integrated Circuits, Photonics, Research News, Spectroscopy Tagged With: , , , , , ,

Trapping Light with Metamaterials

2nd August 2018 by Leave a Comment

A new protective metamaterial cladding prevents light from leaking out of curvy pathways

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New Type of Silicon Laser

11th June 2018 by Leave a Comment

Unconventional approach uses a combination of light and sound waves to amplify light

Filed Under: Beam Shaping, Fiber Lasers, Laser Optics, Laser Sources, Lasers, Light Sources, Optical Computing, Photonic Integrated Circuits, Photonics, Quantum Optics, Research News, Silicon Photonics Tagged With: , , , ,

Capturing Light in a Waveguide Array

5th June 2018 by Leave a Comment

Topological crystalline structures confine light to improve lasers and solar cells

Filed Under: Laser Optics, Lasers, Light Sources, Metamaterials, Nanophotonics, Optical Materials, Photonic Crystals, Photonics, Research News, Solar Cells Tagged With: , , , , ,

Squeezing Light into Nanoscale Devices

30th May 2018 by Leave a Comment

Nanolight travels along the surface of graphene for many tens of microns without scattering

Filed Under: Electro-Optics, Imaging, Metamaterials, Nanophotonics, Optical Communication, Optical Materials, Optoelectronics, Photonic Integrated Circuits, Plasmonic, Research News, Sensors Tagged With: , , , ,

PICs With Lower Bend Loss

13th April 2018 by Leave a Comment

New method in writing of three-dimensional optical waveguides with femtosecond laser pulses

Filed Under: Laser Direct Structuring, Lasers, Nanophotonics, Optical Communication, Optical Fibers, Photonic Integrated Circuits, Photonics, Research News, Ultrashort Laser Pulses Tagged With: , , , , ,

Metasurface Converts Colors of Light

1st February 2018 by Leave a Comment

Structures of phased array antennas are able to circumvent the phase-matching requirement

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Silicon Photonic Chip Detects Gas Leaks

27th October 2017 by Leave a Comment

Low-cost, robust spectrometer on a chip could operate for years with almost no maintenance

Filed Under: Detectors, Measurement Technologies, Optical Sensors, Photonics, Research News, Sensors, Silicon Photonics, Spectroscopy Tagged With: , , , ,

A Zero-Index Waveguide

10th October 2017 by Leave a Comment

Silicon waveguides support phase-free propagation in the telecom regime

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