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Ultrasmall optical devices rewrite the rules of light manipulation

Nanophotonic devices developed at MIT are compact, efficient, reprogrammable, adaptive, and able to dynamically respond to external inputs.

Could Metasurfaces Be The Next Quantum Information Processors?

Researchers blend theoretical insight and precision experiments to entangle photons on an ultra-thin chip

Physicists' New Anti-Forgery Tags Can Hide in Plain Sight

Researchers from ITMO's School of Physics and Engineering have developed optical labels made with gold and silicon. This solution will find its applications in the authentication of optical chips, sensors, and other microelectronics.

Tunable Laser Light

Ring design could be used in telecom, medicine and more

Unclonable Antocounterfeiting Tags Based on Optical Properties of Gold and Silicon

Scientists at ITMO have come up with a new way to protect microelectronics devices from counterfeit. The new technology is based on gold and silicon nanoparticles with unique optical properties that make it possible to create unclonable functions with a record information density.

Photonic processor could streamline 6G wireless signal processing

By performing deep learning at the speed of light, this chip could give edge devices new capabilities for real-time data analysis.

Podcast: Generational Discovery and The New Age of Computer Vision

In this episode, we explore groundbreaking research from Princeton University where scientists have developed ultracompact cameras utilizing metasurfaces—engineered materials that manipulate light in novel ways.

Ultra-thin lenses that make infrared light visible

Physicists at ETH Zurich have developed a lens with magic properties. Ultra-thin, it can transform infrared light into visible light by halving the wavelength of incident light.

Researchers Create New Material for Ultrafast Optical Chips and Transistors

An international team of scientists was first to demonstrate that halide perovskites can serve as a base for nonlinear on-chip optical components. As an example, they can be used to build ultrafast optical chips and transistors, and, potentially, other integrated optical systems.

A compact, mid-infrared pulse generator

Single chip generates short bursts of light for sensing, spectroscopy

Invisible beams of light provide super-fast wireless data transfer

TU/e researchers have sent the equivalent of 1.9 million Netflix series via infrared light from the roof of their building.

Twisted crystals open door to smaller, more powerful optical devices

Researchers develop first-of-its-kind optical sensor that can simultaneously measure wavelength, polarization

A new way of seeing, a new way of computing

Researchers began to explore metasurfaces — materials whose geometry gives them special properties. Instead of bending light inside a piece of glass or plastic, like a conventional lens, a metasurface diffracts light around tiny objects, like light spreading out as it passes through a slit.

Nanostructures enable on-chip lightwave-electronic frequency mixer

Lightwave electronics aim to integrate optical and electronic systems at incredibly high speeds, leveraging the ultrafast oscillations of light fields.