Researchers from Regensburg and Birmingham have overcome a fundamental limitation of optical microscopy. With the help of ...

Silicon carbide is for photonic circuits and quantum devices. Atomic layer processing boosts SiC waveguides and resonators, improving performance.

A novel technique for enhancing optical spring that utilizes the Kerr effect to improve the sensitivity of gravitational wave detectors (GWDs) has recently been developed. This innovative design uses ...

Researchers report a room-temperature organic microcavity where two different forms of spin–orbit coupling act together to ...

A tiny optical device built into a silicon chip has achieved the slowest light propagation on a chip to date, reducing the speed of light by a factor of 1,200 in a study reported in Nature Photonics ...

Aero-optical effects arise when variations in the refractive index—prompted by turbulence, temperature gradients and pressure fluctuations within high-speed airflow—distort the transmission of light.

Nonlinear optical dynamics—intensity-dependent response of light upon interaction with materials under high-intensity light sources—are of huge significance in modern photonics, finding applications ...

A team of researchers led by Prof. SHAO Dingfu from the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, in collaboration with Prof. XIAO Ruichun and Prof. LI Hui from Anhui ...

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