Optical fibers provide an excellent platform for transmitting light over long distances, manipulating it and enhancing ...

Tubular laser beams can create what amount to fiber-optic cables made of thin air, researchers report in a study to appear in Physical Review X. Laser-heated air can efficiently transmit light signals ...

(Nanowerk Spotlight) The concepts of metamaterials and metasurfaces have spawned massive novel applications in free-space optics. However, recent research also indicates that they possess prominent ...

Researchers at the University of Maryland (UMD) have demonstrated a continuously operating optical fiber made of thin air. The most common optical fibers are strands of glass that tightly confine ...

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 ...

Applied in many fields, including avionic and space communications, biomedical instrumentation, fiber laser systems, industrial micromachining, interferometry, lidar, medical diagnostics, optical ...

Co-packaged optics (CPO) technology can integrate photonic integrated circuits (PICs) with electronic integrated circuits (EICs) like CPUs and GPUs on a single platform. This advanced technology has ...

“The SiO2/ITO heterointerface, along with the integration of a Schottky Al/SiO2 junction and MIS stack, is a key component of our optical waveguide device,” explained Dr. Helmy, the principal ...