Optical waveguides and resonators constitute fundamental building blocks in modern photonics, enabling the tight confinement, routing, and manipulation of light on chip-scale platforms. These ...

Non-reciprocal optical devices, which break Lorentz reciprocity, are crucial for telecommunications, quantum computing, and optical signal processing. Traditional magneto-optic devices rely on bulky ...

Silicon-based technology brings fiber-like efficiency to a chip, showing strong potential for quantum computers, biomedical ...

Two nanotechnology approaches converge by employing a new generation of fabrication technology. It combines the scalability of semiconductor technology with the atomic dimensions enabled by ...

Atomically thin semiconductors such as tungsten disulfide (WS2) are promising materials for future photonic technologies.

Researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder have developed optical micro-resonators that trap and amplify light with ...

A single layer of atoms may seem too thin to meaningfully interact with light, yet materials like tungsten disulfide are reshaping what is possible in nanophotonics. Researchers have now found a way ...

Silicon carbide (SiC) is a promising material platform for photonic integrated circuits (PICs) an miniaturized solid -state quantum systems. In the ALP -4 -SiC project—Atomic Layer Processing for SiC ...

Physicists have forced light to behave like electrons trapped in a magnetic field, reproducing the quantum Hall effect with photons for the first time. The experiment, carried out on an optical fiber ...

A team at NIST has built on its existing research into photonic thermometers and developed a way to speed up the operation of the devices. The improvement could allow the design of multiple photonic ...