Emergent Nonlinear Phenomena: Optical Frequency Combs Found a New Dimension
Periodic pulses of light forming a comb in the frequency domain are widely used for sensing and ranging. The key to the miniaturization of this…
Photonics
New Strategies for Designing Efficient Electroluminescent Materials
A collaborative team of materials scientists and theoretical chemists provide hybrid perovskite nanoparticles that are high-efficiency light emitters by using a comprehensive defect-suppression strategy. New…
Extreme Events in Quantum Cascade Lasers Enable an Optical Neuron System 10,000× Faster Than Biological Neurons
QCLs Exhibit Extreme Pulses Extreme events occur in many observable contexts. Nature is a prolific source: rogue water waves surging high above the swell, monsoon…
Record-Breaking Source for Single Photons Developed That Can Produce Billions of Quantum Particles per Second
Researchers at the University of Basel and Ruhr University Bochum have developed a source of single photons that can produce billions of these quantum particles…
Efficiently Converting Light Energy Into Surface Waves on Graphene
Dotty graphene and doping: Whatever it takes for Russia’s record plasmonics to shine. Physicists from MIPT and Vladimir State University, Russia, have achieved a nearly…
Light-Based Processor Chips Advance Machine Learning
International team of researchers uses photonic networks for pattern recognition. In the digital age, data traffic is growing at an exponential rate. The demands on…
AI Boosted by Parallel Convolutional Light-Based Processors
The exponential growth of data traffic in our digital age poses some real challenges on processing power. And with the advent of machine learning and…
Hyperfluorescence: Long Live the Efficient, Pure-Blue OLED
Novel approach shows promise for overcoming the bottleneck of blue emission in displays using organic light-emitting diodes. Using a new combination of emitter molecules, researchers…
T-ray Imaging Technology Reveals What’s Getting Under Your Skin
Terahertz radiation, or T-rays, can reveal valuable information about the structure and dryness of our skin, new study from University of Warwick and The Chinese…
Unique Process Developed for Producing “Ultrastrong Coupling” Between Light and Matter
Discovery provides insight for developing next generation optoelectronic and infrared devices. In groundbreaking new research, an international team of researchers led by the University of…
MIT Physicists Created a Perfect Fluid and Captured the Sound – Listen Here
The results should help scientists study the viscosity in neutron stars, the plasma of the early universe, and other strongly interacting fluids. For some, the…
Lighting Up the Ion Trap: Fiber Optics Built Into a Chip for Quantum Computing
Fiber optics built into a chip can deliver all the laser light needed to control ions for quantum computing and sensing. Walk into a quantum…
Super-Fast Quantum Light Detector Paves Way for Higher Performance Quantum Computers
Researchers have developed a tiny device that paves the way for higher performance quantum computers and quantum communications, making them significantly faster than the current…
Researchers Develop a Portable Terahertz Laser for Powerful Sensing and Imaging
The instrument could bring powerful sensing and imaging capabilities out of the lab and into hospitals, airports, or other settings. Researchers at MIT and the…
Generating Photons for Communication Between Processors in a Quantum Computing System
New technique provides a means of interconnection between processors, opening the way to a complete quantum computing platform. MIT researchers using superconducting quantum bits connected…
Scientists Capture Light in a Polymeric Quasicrystal – New Possibilities for Laser and Sensor Design
ITMO University scientists have conducted several experiments to investigate polymeric quasicrystals that ultimately confirmed their initial theory. In the future, the use of quasicrystals may…
Newly Discovered Memory Effect Alters Doppler Wave Signature
Remembrance of Waves Past: Memory Imprints Motion on Scattered Waves Between relativistic and classical wave regimes, newly discovered memory effect alters the Doppler wave signature….
Breakthrough in the Creation of Electrically Driven Nanolasers for Integrated Circuits
Researchers from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology and King’s College London cleared the obstacle that had prevented the creation of electrically driven nanolasers…