Quantum optics and waveguide quantum electrodynamics represent rapidly evolving frontiers at the intersection of photonics and quantum science. These disciplines explore the fundamental interactions ...

Optical solitons represent a unique phenomenon in nonlinear optics whereby light waves maintain their integrity over long distances by balancing dispersion with nonlinear effects. When these solitons ...

Ultrathin structures that can bend, focus, or filter light, metasurfaces are reshaping how scientists think about optics. These engineered materials offer precise control over lights behavior, but ...

Interferometers, devices that can modulate aspects of light, play the important role of modulating and switching light signals in fiber-optic communications networks and are frequently used for gas ...

Waveguides are structures designed to direct and control the propagation of electromagnetic waves from one point to another. They play a crucial role in various fields, including telecommunications, ...

WASHINGTON — Researchers have designed and demonstrated stretchable waveguides that maintain efficient, stable signal transmission of surface plasmon polaritons even when bent, twisted or stretched.

Researchers have developed a new way to control and manipulate optical signals by embedding a liquid crystal layer into waveguides created with direct laser writing. The new devices enable ...

Using their Mosquito fabrication method, the researchers created a fan-out pattern of multiple thin light paths inside a thin sheet of PDMS. This created four optical channels that could be used for ...

Comprehensive evaluation of image quality with just one system, including MTF, distortion, color, luminance, veiling glare, and relative efficiency TRIOPTICS improves the characterization of image ...

NTT Research, Inc., a division of NTT, today announced that members of its Physics & Informatics (PHI) Lab, in collaboration with Cornell University and Stanford University, have demonstrated a ...

A new fabrication process could make it easier and less expensive to incorporate optical sensing onto lab-on-a-chip devices. These devices integrate laboratory functions onto a plastic or glass "chip" ...

Advance in flexible surface plasmonic waveguides opens the door to smart wearables. (Nanowerk News) Researchers have designed and demonstrated stretchable waveguides that maintain efficient, stable ...