What does it take for scientists to push beyond the current limits of knowledge? Researchers in Federico Capasso’s group at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS ...

Optical waveguides and resonators constitute fundamental building blocks in modern photonics, enabling the tight confinement, routing, and manipulation of light on chip-scale platforms. These ...

Caltech scientists have developed a way to guide light on silicon wafers with low signal loss approaching that of optical ...

WASHINGTON — Researchers have created chip-based photonic resonators that operate in the ultraviolet (UV) and visible regions of the spectrum and exhibit a record low UV light loss. The new resonators ...

By reusing pump energy, the chip scale amplifier delivers high optical gain while operating efficiently in space and power constrained environments.

Quantum technologies, which leverage quantum mechanical effects to process information, could outperform their classical counterparts in some complex and advanced tasks. The development and real-world ...

Researchers have designed a new type of gravitational wave detector that operates in the milli-Hertz range, a region untouched by current observatories. Built with optical resonators and atomic clocks ...

Optical cavities, also known as optical resonators, are structures that confine light within a small volume by utilizing highly reflective surfaces. These cavities allow light to circulate or bounce ...

Since it is compatible with CMOS processes of classic silicon technology, SiC would be ideal for the industrial mass ...

Silicon carbide (SiC) is a promising material platform for photonic integrated circuits (PICs) and miniaturized solid-state quantum systems. In the ALP-4-SiC project, researchers from the Max Planck ...

In nanophotonics, tiny structures manipulate light at incredibly small scales, enabling a range of advanced technologies. One of the most important tools in this field is the optical resonator, which ...