Many applications in spectroscopy, material science, security and industry process control, or chemical, biological and medical sensing would straightforwardly take advantage of mid-infrared
photonics devices of higher performance.
Not exact matches
For Professor Mo Li and his team, it is exciting that their experiment provides the first unambiguous measurement
of the spin angular momentum
of photons and the optical torque generated in an integrated
photonic device.
The techniques could someday lead to a bevy
of novel
devices for electronics,
photonics, nanoscale machines, and possibly disease detection.
And because
photonic chips shuttle photons instead
of electrons, mobile
devices such as smartphones or tablets built with this technology would consume less power, have longer battery life and generate less heat than existing mobile
devices.
The method used by Yu and colleagues
of directly inserting light into the cavity through the end
of the fiber proved far more robust, making the technology a plausible platform for cheap and compact optical - resonator - based
photonic devices.
«We strongly believe that a silicon -
photonic switch is a key
device for achieving sustainable growth
of traffic bandwidth in optical networks, including both telecommunications and data communications, and eventually computer communications.»
«In this way, the switch chip achieves polarization «insensitivity» without doubling the size and cost
of the chip, which is important for broadening the practical application
of such
photonics integrated
devices, said lead author Ken Tanizawa
of AIST.
The new
device, referred to technically as a «fully integrated non-duplicate polarization - diversity silicon -
photonic switch,» consists
of a single 8 x 8 grid
of 2 x 2 element switches.
«Patterning
of photonic crystals is critical for the realisation
of photonic crystal displays and for designing the special functions
of photonic crystal optical
devices.»
These sources are fabricated on a compact, silicon - based integrated
photonics platform, which enables hundreds
of devices — in this case, frequency combs — to be fabricated on a single small - area die.
The
device brings researchers closer to producing silicon
photonic chips that compute and shuttle data with light instead
of electrons.
The benefits
of this study are directly related to the control
of various optical phenomena through the dielectric polarization, and the results will help the development
of future electronic and
photonic devices.»
By tying substances like this in knots, the researchers hope to understand how their intricate configurations and unique properties can be harnessed in the next generation
of advanced materials and
photonic devices.
The findings, he says, «provide further evidence that application
of novel
photonic designs to old problems can lead to potentially new
devices.
Such insights may eventually lead to new kinds
of photonic and electronic materials and
devices, driving the technologies
of tomorrow.
«We already use optical cables and
photonic switches in some
of our telecommunications
devices.
«Professor Soljačić's group has a track record
of rapidly converting new science into creative
devices with industry applications, and I am looking forward to seeing how Weyl
photonics crystals evolve.»
In order to qualify for participation in the Star Tiger programme, applicants should have experience in one or more
of the following research areas: lithography, microelectromechanical systems fabrication, radio frequency (RF) system design, optical and RF
photonic bandgap design, test and measurement, charge - coupled
device imaging, packaging / micro / self - assembly, mechanical design, materials sciences, solid state physics, or general physics.
This enabled the production
of new functional
photonic and optoelectronic
devices by inkjet printing with excellent print quality and uniformity — just like the printing
of intricate graphics or photographs on paper.
«Our inkjet printing demonstration makes possible for the first time the scalable mass fabrication
of black phosphorus based
photonic and optoelectronic
devices with long - term stability necessary for a wide range
of industrial applications,» tells Professor Zhipei Sun at Aalto University in Finland.
Sailing He, meanwhile, had made a name for himself in
photonics, the effort to develop technologies that manipulate light much as electronic
devices control the flow
of electricity.
For example, we will be able to collaborate with researchers that work on integration
of active and passive
devices in silicon for telecommunication («Silicon
Photonics for Future Systems» EPSRC program grant) or sensing applications («Mid-IR silicon
photonics sources, detectors and sensors» funded by the Royal Society) and that will certainly facilitate progress achieved in MIGRATION.»
Weizmann Institute scientists have demonstrated for the first time a
photonic router — a quantum
device based on a single atom that enables routing
of single photons by single photons.
«In a sense, the
device acts as the
photonic equivalent to electronic transistors, which switch electric currents in response to other electric currents,» says Dr. Barak Dayan, head
of the Weizmann Institute's Quantum Optics group, including Itay Shomroni, Serge Rosenblum, Yulia Lovsky, Orel Bechler and Gabriel Guendleman
of the Chemical Physics Department in the Faculty
of Chemistry.
The ability to produce high - performing
photonic devices using the CMOS process means chip designers will not have to be specialists to design
photonic devices, Wade explained, which will hopefully accelerate the commercialization
of photonic technology.
So far, research in mid-IR group IV
photonics has focused on silicon - based
devices for shorter wavelengths due to its availability, low cost, maturity
of fabrication processes, possibility for
photonics - electronics integration and a good transparency.
The functionalized carbon nanotubes have significant prospects for further development, Doorn noted, including advances in functionalization chemistry; integration into
photonic, plasmonic and metamaterials structures for further control
of quantum emission properties; and implementation into electrically driven
devices and optical circuitry for diverse applications.
The finding that a single layer
of atoms modifies properties
of light and other electromagnetic radiation has implications for controlling light at subwavelength scales in
photonic devices such as LEDs and photovoltaic cells.
This approach may allow the use
of optical methods to make high - speed measurements
of nanometric defects in computer chips and
photonic devices.
Researchers at the Institute
of Photonic Sciences (ICFO) have developed a lab - on - a-chip
device that can detect protein cancer markers in a drop
of blood, working as a very early cancer - detection system.
Economically important applications for semiconductor
photonic devices include optical data recording, fiber optic telecommunications, laser printing (based on xerography), displays, and optical pumping
of high - power lasers.
Published in Nature Communications, these
devices are designed to combine the advantages
of photonics and electronics on the same platform.
The
devices, called optical isolators, may help solve major data capacity and system size challenges for
photonic integrated circuits, the light - based equivalent
of electronic circuits, which are used for computing and communications.
Silicon
photonics, inventor
of GHz silicon modulator, novel on - chip nanophotonics
devices, novel micron - size
photonic structures for light manipulation, light confining structures to slow down, enhance, and manipulate light
* Expert at CMOS
device physics and MEMS / NEMS sensors for IoT, life - sciences, micro-fluidics, BioSensors, and
photonics along with Investigation and evaluation
of different technologies.
Tags for this Online Resume: Troubleshooting on high and low power lasers, intel semiconductor, innovative technology, Silicon films that are used in the manufacture
of Thin - Film Transistors, cleanroom years preferred, using
photonics measurement
devices.