These semiconductors exhibit remarkably strong interaction with light and therefore have great potential for application…

The advance, reported January 16 in Nature Photonics, could speed the use of perovskite technologies in commercial appli…

Laser-driving of semimetals allows creating novel quasiparticle states within condensed matter systems and switching between different states on ultrafast time scales

It has now been found, however, that by irradiating a material with a laser, it is also possible to combine a quasiparti…

T he researchers found that by applying strain to aluminum nitride, one could create structural defects that may be harn…

What if you could see the future and stop your IT from breaking?

The physicists have taken a technical quantum leap in addressing this, using techniques from big data to predict how qua…

II-VI’s anti-reflection and beam combining optics achieve very high transmission for a variety of dual or triple bands i…

The drumbeats generate light particles, or photons, which naturally match the higher resonance frequency of the cavity.…

The experiment carried out by the scientists involved probing water with a pulsed laser and using a spectrometer to anal…

Examples are two photons of the same frequency combining to create one at twice the frequency—known as second harmonic g…

Besides having the potential to replace bulky, expensive amplifiers used today for the study of attosecond science and u…

Trapping light and mechanical waves within a tiny bullseye, design could enable more sensitive motion detection

The researchers created a silicon disk 24 microns wide that confines the light and mechanical waves using separate mecha…

In experiments at the Max Born Institute, direct laser acceleration of electrons could now be demonstrated and understoo…

The researchers coated the semiconducting material with a thin layer of nanometer-thick semiconductor on the metal, resu…

Aspheric lenses provide a cost effective way of reducing the number of optical elements in a system. A correctly formed…

Using atomic quantum-simulation, an experimental technique involving finely tuned lasers and ultracold atoms about a bil…

Computer Simulations Show How Light Pulses Can Create Channels that Conduct Electricity with No Resistance in Atomically Thin Semiconductors

Theoretical physicists at the Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory used computer simulations to s…

Innovations in "spintronics" have led some to predict the eventual emergence of a universal memory technology to replace all others

Measuring damping parameters in an array of nanomagnets is extremely challenging, but Schmidt's lab is able to do this u…

Latest Release Speeds Simulation of Long-Haul Optical Transmission Systems and Photonic Integrated Circuits

Version 2016.12 of the RSoft Photonic System Design Suite includes important enhancements to its optical fiber and PIC s…

II-VI Infrared’s polygon scanner mirrors address the facet geometry, flatness and roughness requirements for next genera…

The Vuzix Blade 3000 Smart Sunglasses is completely untethered and supports both wireless Wi-Fi and Bluetooth interfaces…