By harnessing the unique properties of tantala (tantalum pentoxide), a team of US-based researchers has created a photonic integrated circuit that can be tuned to deliver laser light across a broad ...

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has launched a program aimed at radically improving the performance of very large-scale photonic circuits. DARPA is seeking proposals for Photonic ...

The field of integrated photonics has the potential to enable advancements in key technologies such as Quantum Computing, Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR) for self-driving cars, and foster more ...

A group of South Korean researchers has successfully developed an integrated quantum circuit chip using photons (light particles). This achievement is expected to enhance the global competitiveness of ...

The teams from both institutes (Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light (MPL) and the Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Systems and Device Technology IISB) are collaborating on the design of ...