New manufacturing method builds tougher materials that were previously considered useless for twisting light into more robust optical devices.
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A new quantum-system-on-chip enables the efficient control of a large array of qubits, moving toward practical quantum computing.
In this episode, discuss how big of a problem lead contaminated water still is across the world and how a collaboration between MIT & Nanyang University plans to tackle it with a highly accurate and inexpensive water pollution sensor.
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The chip-scale device could provide sensitive detection of lead levels in drinking water, whose toxicity affects 240 million people worldwide.
Using an ultrasensitive photonic crystal, TU/e researchers were able to detect single particles down to 50 nanometers in diameter. The new research has just been published in the journal Optica.
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Physicists from ITMO University have created an AI-based solution to make quantum states remain stable for longer for the processing, reliable recording, and storage of information. This study, described in a recent article in Applied Physics Letters, may help pave the way to quantum computers.
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The researchers developed a light-based means of printing nano-sized metal structures that is 480 times faster and 35 times cheaper than the current conventional method.
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Lights could soon use the full color suite of perfectly efficient organic light-emitting diodes, or OLEDs, that last tens of thousands of hours, thanks to an innovation from physicists and engineers at the University of Michigan.
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EPFL researchers have developed a hybrid device that significantly improves existing, ubiquitous laser technology.
Exploring Silicon Photonics: Shaping the Future of Optical Communication
There are times when scientific progress comes in the form of discovering something completely new. Other times, progress boils down to doing something better, faster, or more easily.
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More stable clocks could measure quantum phenomena, including the presence of dark matter.
Integrated photonics, also known as planar lightwave circuits or integrated optical circuits, revolutionizes optical communication by leveraging the properties of light to process and transmit information. This cutting-edge technology offers superior efficiency and compactness compared to traditional electronic components, paving the way for faster and more energy-efficient communication systems. With its interdisciplinary nature encompassing materials science, quantum physics, and electrical engineering, integrated photonics presents an exciting and promising field of study and research in today's digital era.
A perovskite-based device that combines aspects of electronics and photonics may open doors to new kinds of computer chips or quantum qubits.
Photonic time crystals, whose properties change periodically, promise significant advances in microwave technology, optics and photonics. Researchers at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), together with partners at Aalto University and Stanford University, have now produced a two-dimensional photonic time crystal for the first time and demonstrated important applications.
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