A new technical paper titled “Hybrid silicon all-optical switching devices integrated with two-dimensional material” was published by researchers at RIKEN, National Institute of Advanced Industrial ...

Light can be sculpted into countless shapes. Yet building optical devices that can simultaneously manipulate many different ...

Opaque materials can transmit light when excited by a high-intensity laser beam. This process, known as optical bleaching, induces a nonlinear effect that temporarily alters the properties of a ...

While many research efforts are underway to develop active devices that can function in the challenging terahertz spectrum, others are leapfrogging to try to get some devices operate into the ...

Light Publishing Center, Changchun Institute of Optics, Fine Mechanics And Physics, CAS The implementation of integrated optical switches shows promises in the size reduction of ROADMs for greater ...

A new kind of mirror is emerging from quantum physics labs, one that exists not as a chunk of polished glass but as a ...

SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Lumentum Holdings Inc. (LITE) ("Lumentum"), a global leader in optical and photonic solutions for the cloud and networking markets, will unveil its latest ...

Switching has almost always meant “hard" switching, which is simple but comes with all kinds of electrical and thermal ...

Researchers demonstrate ultrafast multivalley optical switching in germanium (Ge) using a single-color pulse laser. This breakthrough enables precise transparency control across multiple wavelengths, ...