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 ...

Caltech scientists have developed a way to guide light on silicon wafers with low signal loss approaching that of optical ...

Ultra-low-latency data processing is central to high-frequency trading, where nanosecond-level delays define competitive advantage. To meet this demand, scientists have developed a scalable photonic ...

(Nanowerk News) A central goal in quantum optics and photonics is to increase the strength of the interaction between light and matter to produce, e.g., better photodetectors or quantum light sources.

We are seeking a Research Fellow with a strong background in optical glass science and fabrication to join the EPSRC-funded PURE collaboration between the University of Southampton and the California ...

Nonlinearity-driven NHSE in a topological mode-locked laser. a, Schematic representation of the NH-SSH domain wall implemented in our mode-locked laser’s synthetic lattice. b, Heat map of our ...

In a milestone for scalable quantum technologies, scientists from Boston University, UC Berkeley, and Northwestern University have reported the world's first electronic–photonic–quantum system on a ...

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 ...

a, Schematic of the CCPS/Si microring resonator under an applied magnetic field, showing CW and CCW light propagation differences. b, Electric field intensity profiles for TE modes at 1550 nm for bare ...