The world is becoming “optically flat” as optical design and production continues to expand across the globe, reaching new manufacturing frontiers daily.
The secret of the iPhone’s success is not that it makes cellular phone calls, but that it is also a handheld computer with an absolutely astounding number of third-party applications...
Should photonics companies outsource components or finished products? Where is a good place to outsource photonic products? And what are the top dos and don’ts?
Optical fiber has undergone incredible transformation over the past decade, with modifications to the physical design, fabrication techniques, and materials all contributing to...
Optically active color centers in diamond have been found to exhibit attractive optical properties that have paved the way to the realization of practical sources of single-photon...
Compared to ultraviolet detectors based on traditional semiconductors like silicon and gallium arsenide, nitride-based UV detectors have improved insensitivity to visible and ...
Supercollimation, the propagation of light without diffraction, uses the properties of photonic crystals to transmit signals over centimeter-scale distances—ideal for integrated...
Alignment of electro-optical devices with multiple paths, multiple sources, off-axis elements, tight tolerances, or difficult components can be simplified through well-known tools...
By changing the air-filling fraction of the photonic-crystal fibers used in white-light supercontinuum sources, the traditional “blue deficiency” of such sources is eliminated...
An advanced thin-film metrology tool based on spectroscopic ellipsometry and dedicated to the measurements of blank and patterned wafers is designed to reduce the need for modeling...
In a one-dimensional (1-D) periodic Bragg stack of light-emitting quantum wells (QWs), the standing-wave pattern has nodes at the QW positions, which for normal (perpendicular...
Fabrication of three-dimensional metamaterials with negative refractive index at optical wavelengths has opened the way to dramatic new types of optics, such as “superlenses.
The hypothetical Maxwell’s demon opens and closes a tiny trapdoor dividing two containers of gas to shuttle atoms one way without exerting effort, raising the number of atoms ...
It makes sense that if the performance of a terahertz emitter is directly impacted by its surface structure (see “Black silicon emits terahertz radiation,” p.46)
(Courtesy of Polymer Optical Fiber Application Center, Nürnberg)
Polymer optical fiber is benefiting from new modulation techniques and polymer designs that are extending data rates to 100 Gbit/s and improving POF performance for sensors, data...
Scientists at Discovery Semiconductors (Ewing, NJ), Science Applications International (Albuquerque, NM), the Air Force Research Laboratory (Kirtland AFB, NM), and Schafer (Albuquerque...
Silicon (Si) nanowires are attractive as photodetectors for wavelengths ranging from ultraviolet (UV) to infrared because of their ability to trap carriers at the surface with...
