No earlier theory had envisioned that the responses would be so large! Scientists "poked" three crystals with pulses of light. Unexpectedly, the crystals exhibited the largest nonlinear optical response of any known crystal. ...
Condensed Matter
Mar 21, 2018
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By forcing light to go through a smaller gap than ever before, researchers have paved the way for computers based on light instead of electronics.
Optics & Photonics
Nov 30, 2017
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Nonlinear optics is a key enabling technology of our modern society, such as in imaging and high-speed data communication. But the traditional devices suffer from relatively small nonlinear optical coefficients of conventional ...
Optics & Photonics
Oct 25, 2017
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NUS chemists have developed a new class of crystalline materials to potentially harvest near-infrared (NIR) radiation.
Materials Science
Oct 16, 2017
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Researchers from ICN2's Phononic and Photonic Nanostructures (P2N) Group at the UAB campus have published a study in which the complex dynamics, including chaos, of optical nonlinearities, are controlled by using optomechanical ...
Optics & Photonics
Apr 19, 2017
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In physics, the Fermi-Pasta-Ulam-Tsingou (FPUT) problem—which found that certain nonlinear systems do not disperse their energy, but rather return to their initial excited states—has been a challenge that scientists have ...
General Physics
Apr 14, 2017
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A large number of researchers are working in the area of nonlinear optics, which is the study of all effects that can be described as multi-photon interactions in various materials systems, including cases where the frequency ...
Optics & Photonics
Jan 4, 2017
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Aromatic molecules consist of planar carbon-based rings with alternating single and double (π) bonds. These molecules contain 4n+2 (n = 0, 1, 2 ...) π electrons—π electrons are those involved in π bonds—which results ...
Materials Science
Dec 15, 2016
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Imagine getting a medical X-ray that comes out blank – as if your bones had vanished. That's what happened when scientists cranked up the intensity of the world's first X-ray laser, at the Department of Energy's SLAC National ...
General Physics
Aug 30, 2016
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Work by an internationally renowned University of Rochester professor may offer an alternative to the way in which researchers have approached some photonics applications.
Optics & Photonics
Apr 28, 2016
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