EPFL researchers have developed a hybrid device that significantly improves existing, ubiquitous laser technology.
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Exploring Silicon Photonics: Shaping the Future of Optical Communication
There are times when scientific progress comes in the form of discovering something completely new. Other times, progress boils down to doing something better, faster, or more easily.
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More stable clocks could measure quantum phenomena, including the presence of dark matter.
Integrated photonics, also known as planar lightwave circuits or integrated optical circuits, revolutionizes optical communication by leveraging the properties of light to process and transmit information. This cutting-edge technology offers superior efficiency and compactness compared to traditional electronic components, paving the way for faster and more energy-efficient communication systems. With its interdisciplinary nature encompassing materials science, quantum physics, and electrical engineering, integrated photonics presents an exciting and promising field of study and research in today's digital era.
A perovskite-based device that combines aspects of electronics and photonics may open doors to new kinds of computer chips or quantum qubits.
Photonic time crystals, whose properties change periodically, promise significant advances in microwave technology, optics and photonics. Researchers at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), together with partners at Aalto University and Stanford University, have now produced a two-dimensional photonic time crystal for the first time and demonstrated important applications.
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We proclaim 2022 The Year of Innovation. In this "End of the Year" list we highlight 25 Campus high-tech, innovative companies, including multi-nationals, startups, scale-ups and everything in-between. These are companies of the future, and they’re all here at HTCE.
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Using green light and a double-layered cell, PhD researcher Riccardo Ollearo has come up with a photodiode that has sensitivity that many can only dream of.
Photonic fibers borrow from butterfly wings to enable invisible, indelible sorting labels.
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In a significant advance for impactful technologies such as quantum optics and laser displays for AR/VR, Columbia Engineering’s Lipson Nanophotonics Group has invented the first tunable and narrow linewidth chip-scale lasers for visible wavelengths shorter than red.
Researchers from the Cluster of Excellence "3D Matter Made to Order" Print Microstructures by Crossing Red and Blue Laser Beams - Publication in Nature Photonics
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The start-up QuiX Quantum will develop prototype photonic quantum computers over the next four years.
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Device opens the door to applications in optical communications, sensing, and the search for exoplanets
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PhotonFirst develops and manufactures photonics sensing technologies to measure temperature, strain, pressure, shape and acceleration in objects ranging from buildings to airplanes to medical devices.
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