Search results for photonics and optics

Optics & Photonics Oct 24, 2022

An artificial polariton neuron as a step towards a photonic system that mimics the operation of the human brain

Scientists from the Faculty of Physics at the University of Warsaw and the Polish Academy of Sciences used photons to create a spiking neuron, the basic element of the future photonic neural network processor. The results ...

Optics & Photonics Oct 24, 2022

To break new ground with frequency combs, an innovation plays with the beat

An improvement to a Nobel Prize-winning technology called a frequency comb enables it to measure light pulse arrival times with greater sensitivity than was previously possible—potentially improving measurements of distance ...

Optics & Photonics Oct 23, 2022

New data transmission record set using a single laser and a single optical chip

An international group of researchers from Technical University of Denmark (DTU) and Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg, Sweden have achieved dizzying data transmission speeds and are the first in the world to ...

Optics & Photonics Oct 14, 2022

The complex Maxwell stress tensor theorem: A novel scenery underlying electromagnetic optical forces

Optical manipulation of matter by using the mechanical action of light is one of the vibrant subjects of micro and nanoscience. In 2018 the Nobel Prize in physics was awarded to Arthur Ashkin for the invention and development ...

Optics & Photonics Oct 10, 2022

New technique to trap soundwaves and light on a chip in large-scale circuits

In recent decades, chips and electronic devices have become exponentially smaller and faster. Engineers have nearly reached the limits of traditional electronics and are now in the process of transitioning from electronics ...

Optics & Photonics Oct 7, 2022

Medical optical imaging using the world's first 'ultrasound-induced tissue transparency' technology

A joint research team from DGIST led by Professors Jin Ho Chang and Jae Youn Hwang of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science has developed the world's first laser scanning microscopy technology that ...

Optics & Photonics Oct 7, 2022

Optical foundations illuminated by quantum light

Optics, the study of light, is one of the oldest fields in physics and has never ceased to surprise researchers. Although the classical description of light as a wave phenomenon is rarely questioned, the physical origins ...

Optics & Photonics Oct 6, 2022

A new method to enable efficient interactions between photons

Photons, particles that represent a quantum of light, have shown great potential for the development of new quantum technologies. More specifically, physicists have been exploring the possibility of creating photonic qubits ...

Optics & Photonics Sep 28, 2022

'Optical magic': New flat glass enables optimal visual quality for augmented reality goggles

As anyone who has recently tried out an augmented reality headset knows, the technology is not yet ready to be part of our everyday lives. Researchers have been working to perfect high-performing augmented reality (AR) glasses, ...

Optics & Photonics Sep 9, 2022

Researchers suggest novel way to generate a light source made from entangled photons

Entanglement is a strange phenomenon in quantum physics where two particles are inherently connected to each other no matter the distance between them. When one is measured, the other measurement is instantly a given. Researchers ...

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