Nanophysics
Mar 18, 2021
Teamwork makes light shine ever brighter
If you're looking for one technique to maximize photon output from plasmons, stop. It takes two to wrangle.
Search results for nanophotonic
Optics & Photonics
Mar 12, 2021
Shaping radio signals using light
Shaping radio signals using photonics technologies seems like a detour. But the versatility of current programmable silicon photonic circuits can open new possibilities according to researchers of the University of Twente. ...
Optics & Photonics
Mar 11, 2021
Arbitrary polarization conversion dichroism metasurfaces for full Poincaré sphere polarizers
Polarization control is essential for tailoring light-matter interactions and is the foundation for many applications such as polarization imaging, nonlinear optics, data storage, and information multiplexing. A linear polarizer, ...
General Physics
Mar 8, 2021
Xanadu announces programmable photonic quantum chip able to execute multiple algorithms
A team of researchers and engineers at Canadian company Xanadu Quantum Technologies Inc., working with the National Institute of Standards and Technology in the U.S., has developed a programmable, scalable photonic quantum ...
Optics & Photonics
Mar 3, 2021
Molybdenum disulfide ushers in era of post-silicon photonics
Researchers of the Center for Photonics and Two-Dimensional Materials at MIPT, together with their colleagues from Spain, Great Britain, Sweden, and Singapore, including co-creator of the world's first 2-D material and Nobel ...
Nanophysics
Feb 26, 2021
Sub-diffraction optical writing enables data storage at the nanoscale
The total amount of data generated worldwide is expected to reach 175 zettabytes (1 ZB equals 1 billion terabytes) by 2025. If 175 ZB were stored on Blu-ray disks, the stack would be 23 times the distance to the moon. There ...
Bio & Medicine
Feb 17, 2021
Novel sandwich technology improves sensitivity of rapid tests
EPFL scientists have developed a method for boosting the sensitivity of rapid-detection tests like those used for the new coronavirus. The results of their feasibility study have just been published in Nano Letters.
Optics & Photonics
Feb 4, 2021
Switching nanolight on and off
A team of researchers led by Columbia University has developed a unique platform to program a layered crystal, producing imaging capabilities beyond common limits on demand.
Optics & Photonics
Feb 2, 2021
Air-guiding in solid-core optical waveguides: A solution for on-chip trace gas spectroscopy
Optical waveguides suspended in air are capable of beating free-space laser beams in light-analyte interaction even without complex dispersion engineering. This phenomenon was predicted more than 20 years ago, yet never observed ...
Nanomaterials
Jan 22, 2021
Research team extends 4-D printing to nanophotonics
The Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) and its research collaborators have successfully demonstrated the four-dimensional (4-D) printing of shape memory polymers in submicron dimensions which are comparable ...
