Search results for electro-optic

Nanomaterials Apr 24, 2020

Engineers open door to big new library of tiny nanoparticles

The development of bimetallic nanoparticles (i.e., tiny particles composed of two different metals that exhibit several new and improved properties) represents a novel area of research with a wide range of potential applications. ...

Quantum Physics Apr 20, 2020

Quantum entanglement offers unprecedented precision for GPS and more (Update)

Your phone's GPS, the Wi-Fi in your house and communications on aircraft are all powered by radio-frequency, or RF, waves, which carry information from a transmitter at one point to a sensor at another. The sensors interpret ...

Optics & Photonics Apr 17, 2020

How to develop a new generation of faster, cheaper and greener optical networks

A team of scientists has developed a novel circuit architecture for high-speed optical transceivers to facilitate full automation, agility and efficiency in future data centres.

Optics & Photonics Apr 14, 2020

Researchers develop fast, micrometer-size electro-optical modulator

Researchers at the George Washington University developed and demonstrated for the first time a silicon-based electro-optical modulator that is smaller, as fast as and more efficient than state-of-the-art technologies. By ...

Optics & Photonics Apr 1, 2020

Optical data processing benefits from new kind of mobillity

Mode control is essential for optical communications and data processing technologies. Whether it's connections and switches in data transmission lines or some sort of non-reciprocal device for optical circuits, the ability ...

Nanomaterials Mar 27, 2020

Double-walled nanotubes have electro-optical advantages

One nanotube could be great for electronics applications, but there's new evidence that two could be tops.

General Physics Mar 19, 2020

Scientists create quantum sensor that covers entire radio frequency spectrum

A quantum sensor could give Soldiers a way to detect communication signals over the entire radio frequency spectrum, from 0 to 100 GHz, said researchers from the Army.

Optics & Photonics Mar 11, 2020

MEMS technology for fabricating plasmonic near-infrared spectrometers

Near-infrared spectroscopy provides absorption spectrum unique to substances so that discrimination of gas species becomes possible. Miniaturization of spectrometers is thus required to realize compact gas sensors for monitoring ...

Optics & Photonics Feb 27, 2020

Researchers combine advanced spectroscopy technique with video-rate imaging

For the first time, researchers have used an advanced analytical technique known as dual-comb spectroscopy to rapidly acquire extremely detailed hyperspectral images. By acquiring a full spectrum of information for each pixel ...

Optics & Photonics Feb 25, 2020

Researchers create new state of light

For 20 years, researchers have studied how light rotates around a longitudinal axis parallel to the direction light travels. But could it move in other ways? After two years of research, and thanks to a sabbatical, University ...

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