Ultrafast triggering of strong coupling in a semiconductor terahertz Fabry-Pérot cavity
THz characterization of a photo-excited thin Si wafer When a semiconductor is excited above band-gap, its optical properties…
Scientists Reprogram How Light Travels in Just 74 Femtoseconds
Researchers have shown that nanoscale silicon structures can amplify an otherwise weak optical effect enough to control light…
Scientists Steer Infrared Light Through an “Invisible” Waveguide
Artist’s illustration of plasmon canalization in MoOCl₂, showing light propagating along a narrow channel. The image depicts the…
World’s First Photonic Time Crystal Can Reshape Light in Trillionths of a Second
A THz electromagnetic wave induces strong, fast temporal modulations that realize a photonic time crystal: a crystal lattice…
Oppo Find X10 Ultra’s 10x telephoto sensor reportedly split between two suppliers
ⓘ Weibo The Find X9 Ultra camera deco A new leak details two candidate 50MP sensors for the…
Topological Jackiw-Rebbi states in photonic Van der Waals heterostructures
Theoretical model for guided modes of photonic gratings Assuming continuous translational symmetry in the lateral y direction, the…
Scientists Turned a 200-Year-Old Light Trick Into a Modern Breakthrough
A Poisson spot contains four types of skyrmions in one light spot. Credit: Optica / NTU Singapore A…
Spin-photon qubits for scalable quantum network
Lodahl, P. Scaling up solid-state quantum photonics. Science 362, 646–646, https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aav3076 (2018). Article ADS Google Scholar Chanelière, T.…
Newly Invented Pixel Could Turn Screens Into Cameras
Pixels control and analyze light on displays—they’re part of the reason you’re reading this sentence right now. But…
Dynamically tunable membrane metasurfaces for infrared spectroscopy and strong light-matter interactions
To investigate the thermal tunability of the Si membrane metasurfaces, we first performed temperature-dependent optical characterization using a…
New Data Chip Activates a Secret Message When You Breathe On It
Researchers have been hard at work coming up with new ways to safely store information than traditional magnetic…
Robust single-mode laser via merging bound state in the continuum
Theoretical analysis of the merging BIC laser Figure 1a shows the schematic of our merging BIC laser. We…