Researchers from Regensburg and Birmingham have overcome a fundamental limitation of optical microscopy. With the help of quantum mechanical effects, they succeeded for the first time in performing ...

Silicon carbide is for photonic circuits and quantum devices. Atomic layer processing boosts SiC waveguides and resonators, improving performance.

Aero-optical effects arise when variations in the refractive index—prompted by turbulence, temperature gradients and pressure fluctuations within high-speed airflow—distort the transmission of light.

A novel technique for enhancing optical spring that utilizes the Kerr effect to improve the sensitivity of gravitational wave detectors (GWDs) has recently been developed. This innovative design uses ...

Researchers report a room-temperature organic microcavity where two different forms of spin–orbit coupling act together to ...

A tiny optical device built into a silicon chip has achieved the slowest light propagation on a chip to date, reducing the speed of light by a factor of 1,200 in a study reported in Nature Photonics ...

Ultrathin structures that can bend, focus, or filter light, metasurfaces are reshaping how scientists think about optics. These engineered materials offer precise control over lights behavior, but ...

Polymeric materials have attracted significant attention due to their tunable optical properties and the profound impact that radiation can exert upon their structure and performance. The interaction ...

A silicon-lithium niobate metasurface controls light through air at gigahertz speeds, advancing compact systems for optical communication and signal routing. (Nanowerk Spotlight) Optical systems that ...

The WaveShaper 1000A Sharp is available as a benchtop instrument for laboratory operation and works seamlessly with Coherent’s WaveAnalyzer™ family of high-resolution optical spectrum analyzers. The ...