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Video: June 16, 2023 Photonics Hot List

June 16, 2023

Here’s your Photonics Hot List for June 16, 2023, covering laser spectroscopy tech that dives deep, the realistic possibility of sapphire photonic chips, and nonlinear metasurfaces that boost frequency changes.

Justine Murphy

In this episode of Photonics Hot List...

The SETI Institute is taking optical sensing and spectroscopy to new depths…to the very bottom of the ocean, in fact. They’re revolutionizing oceanography and could someday set their sights on space exploration.

More advanced photonics integrated chips are now a very real possibility, thanks to work by researchers in the U.K. who have been able to write hundreds of waveguides in sapphire.

A team at Paderborn University has tailored nanostructured nonlinear metasurfaces to basically triple the frequency of incoming light. They’ve discovered that different parameter combinations support extreme increases in efficiency in the nonlinear frequency conversion process.

About the Author

Justine Murphy | Multimedia Director, Digital Infrastructure

Justine Murphy is the multimedia director for Endeavor Business Media's Digital Infrastructure Group. She is a multiple award-winning writer and editor with more 20 years of experience in newspaper publishing as well as public relations, marketing, and communications. For nearly 10 years, she has covered all facets of the optics and photonics industry as an editor, writer, web news anchor, and podcast host for an internationally reaching magazine publishing company. Her work has earned accolades from the New England Press Association as well as the SIIA/Jesse H. Neal Awards. She received a B.A. from the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts.