A team of engineers and scientists has shown for the first time that a hard-X-ray cavity can provide net X-ray gain, with ...

Optical waveguides and resonators constitute fundamental building blocks in modern photonics, enabling the tight confinement, routing, and manipulation of light on chip-scale platforms. These ...

Quantum technologies, which leverage quantum mechanical effects to process information, could outperform their classical counterparts in some complex and advanced tasks. The development and real-world ...

(Nanowerk News) A central goal in quantum optics and photonics is to increase the strength of the interaction between light and matter to produce, e.g., better photodetectors or quantum light sources.

Rapid and sensitive label-free sensors are needed for many biochemical applications including early diagnostics and prognostics, monitoring food and water quality, chemical threat sensing, and early ...

Silicon carbide is for photonic circuits and quantum devices. Atomic layer processing boosts SiC waveguides and resonators, improving performance.

In nanophotonics, tiny structures manipulate light at incredibly small scales, enabling a range of advanced technologies. One of the most important tools in this field is the optical resonator, which ...

Silicon carbide (SiC) is a promising material platform for photonic integrated circuits (PICs) and miniaturized solid-state quantum systems. In the ALP-4-SiC project, researchers from the Max Planck ...