Light can be sculpted into countless shapes. Yet building optical devices that can simultaneously manipulate many different ...

An unexpected discovery in a Harvard lab has led to a breakthrough insight into choosing an unconventional material, silica, ...

Researchers found silica can outperform high-index materials for optical metasurfaces. Its chip-making compatibility enables ...

A new technical paper titled “Hybrid tungsten oxyselenide/graphene electrodes for near-lossless 2D semiconductor phase ...

Scientists have unveiled a new way to capture ultra-sharp optical images without lenses or painstaking alignment. The ...

A device smaller than a grain of dust may help unlock the kind of quantum computers people have only dreamed about. Built on ...

All-optical image processing has been viewed as a promising technique for its high computation speed and low power ...

All-optical modulation technology is considered an emerging research field that may have a significant impact in the future. As compared to the conventional electrical modulation technology, the most ...

Optical logic gates represent a cutting‐edge approach to perform computation entirely with light, bypassing the limitations inherent to electronic components. By exploiting light’s phase, intensity, ...

Researchers describe a highly accurate way to assemble multiple micron-scale optical devices extremely close together on a single chip. The approach could allow high-volume manufacturing of chip-based ...

An Apple optical data transfer patent granted yesterday could facilitate super-fast communications between devices. The patent says that the technology could offer transfer speeds of “terabits per ...