Light can be sculpted into countless shapes. Yet building optical devices that can simultaneously manipulate many different ...

Engineers built a nanoscale optical device that uses voltage to control light's phase and intensity, advancing quantum communication and compact optical technologies. The device, developed by ...

Lithium niobate has emerged as a cornerstone material in advanced photonic technologies, owing to its exceptional electro‐optic coefficients, wide optical transparency and strong nonlinear properties.

Capasso himelf called the discovery “a counterintuitive breakthrough in nanotechnology.” He added, “We have demonstrated in ...

Currently, Kyocera’s technology enables aerial images whose focal positions vary by wavelength. In the future, increasing the ...

Harvard researchers have found that silica, long thought to lack the right properties for optical metasurfaces, can sometimes ...

Primary performance data for passive fiber-optic devices is provided by spectral measurement of optical insertion loss (IL) and polarization-dependent loss (PDL). Often used to characterize optical ...

Optical isolation and nonreciprocal devices are pivotal components in modern photonic systems, ensuring unidirectional light propagation and safeguarding sensitive equipment from unwanted reflections.

In the realm of general relativity, black holes are well-known for their ability to trap light and matter by bending spacetime, creating a point of no return. While black holes have fascinated ...

Scientists have created an optical device capable of mimicking black holes and the still hypothetical white holes. This system could revolutionize our understanding of the Universe and lead to ...

Physicists from Trinity College Dublin believe new insights into the behavior of light may offer a new means of solving one ...

A new fabrication process could make it easier and less expensive to incorporate optical sensing onto lab-on-a-chip devices. These devices integrate laboratory functions onto a plastic or glass "chip" ...