News tagged with silicon waveguide
Engineers at Yale develop new type of mechanical memory
(PhysOrg.com) -- Research engineers at Yale University have succeeded in building a mechanical memory switch that is controlled and then read by lasers. In their paper published in Nature Nanotechnology, the te ...
Oct 25, 2011 |
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'Microring' device could aid in future optical technologies
(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at Purdue University and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have created a device small enough to fit on a computer chip that converts continuous laser light ...
Oct 19, 2011 |
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Silicon waveguide that converts polarization mode of light could speed up photonic circuits operation
Silicon is the dominant material for the fabrication of integrated circuits and is also becoming a popular material for making photonics circuits -- miniaturized circuits that use light instead of electronic ...
Jun 09, 2011 |
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Small optical force can budge nanoscale objects
(PhysOrg.com) -- Engineering researchers have used a very tiny beam of light with as little as 1 milliwatt of power to move a silicon structure up to 12 nanometers.
Nov 17, 2009 |
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Time Lens Speeds Up Optical Data Transmission
(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at Cornell University have developed a device called a "time lens" which is a silicon device for speeding up optical data. The basic components of this device are an optical-fiber ...
Sep 28, 2009 |
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Optical chip detects blood molecules
(PhysOrg.com) -- A portable 'lab on a chip' that can identify target molecules in blood samples has been created by European researchers. It is being used to measure fertility hormones and detect the genes ...
Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry
Jul 15, 2009 |
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