Self-configuring optical devices automatically learn how to sort out light

Light can be sculpted into countless shapes. Yet building optical devices that can simultaneously manipulate many different ...
Nanowerk

An unexpected breakthrough in flat optics

Researchers found silica can outperform high-index materials for optical metasurfaces. Its chip-making compatibility enables ...
Science Daily

Researchers integrate optical devices made of multiple materials onto single chip

Researchers describe a highly accurate way to assemble multiple micron-scale optical devices extremely close together on a single chip. The approach could allow high-volume manufacturing of chip-based ...
sciencex

All-optical logic devices based on 2D B-AsP show strong nonlinear optical response and high stability

All-optical modulation technology is considered an emerging research field that may have a significant impact in the future. As compared to the conventional electrical modulation technology, the most ...
Nature

Optical Logic Gates and Photonic Crystal Devices

Optical logic gates represent a cutting‐edge approach to perform computation entirely with light, bypassing the limitations inherent to electronic components. By exploiting light’s phase, intensity, ...
CU Boulder News & Events

Scientists debut world’s most efficient 'optical rectennas,' devices that harvest power from heat

Scientists at CU Boulder have tapped into a poltergeist-like property of electrons to design devices that can capture excess heat from their environment—and turn it into usable electricity. The ...
Nature

Optical Isolation and Nonreciprocal Devices

Optical isolation and nonreciprocal devices are pivotal components in modern photonic systems, ensuring unidirectional light propagation and safeguarding sensitive equipment from unwanted reflections.
Semiconductor Engineering

Hybrid All-Optical Switching Devices Combining Silicon Nanocavities And 2D Semiconductor Material

A new technical paper titled “Hybrid silicon all-optical switching devices integrated with two-dimensional material” was published by researchers at RIKEN, National Institute of Advanced Industrial ...
EurekAlert!

All optical logic devices based on black arsenic–phosphorus with strong nonlinear optical response and high stability

image: (a) The band gap structure of the B-AsxP1-x (x = 0.4) NSs; (b) The 2D B-AsP NSs dispersions used in our experiment, and the Tyndall effect observed as the laser beams transmitted through the ...
Science Daily

Tailoring 2D materials to improve electronic and optical devices

New possibilities for future developments in electronic and optical devices have been unlocked by recent advancements in two-dimensional (2D) materials. New possibilities for future developments in ...
9to5Mac

Apple optical data transfer patent could allow super-fast comms between devices

An Apple optical data transfer patent granted yesterday could facilitate super-fast communications between devices. The patent says that the technology could offer transfer speeds of “terabits per ...