Optics

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FIGURE 1. Li He (left) and Bo Zhen (right) in the lab with their photonic crystal platform that enables guiding light in a forward-only direction around a chip’s defects and bends. Credit: Eric Sucar/University of Pennsylvania
Chips are akin to optical mazes, in which photons can scatter or never reach their destination. But researchers just created a gamechanger “photonic crystal highway” design to...
Oct. 2, 2025
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Sept. 30, 2025
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FIGURE 1. Christina Beanea-Chelmus, head of EPFL’s Laboratory of Hybrid Photonics, with Yazan Lampert, who holds the team’s lithium niobate chip that generates and detects THz by converting them to and from ultrafast optical signals.
Sept. 29, 2025
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From warehouse floors to the cloud, Lumotive’s LCM technology bridges the physical and digital worlds through software-defined light.
Sept. 26, 2025
Credit: Alireza Marandi
The team’s experimental setup uses an on-chip optical parametric oscillator (OPO) to generate a frequency comb of laser-like light over a wide range of frequencies. An optical fiber is to the left and a free-space objective is to the right. Credit: Alireza Marandi
Sept. 24, 2025
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Sept. 23, 2025
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Sept. 22, 2025
Credit: Stephan Höck
Professor Andreas Tittl in front of his lab’s optical table. Credit: Stephan Höck
Sept. 15, 2025
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Sept. 12, 2025

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