The multi-level intermediate states of phase change materials realized by laser-writing technique open up their potential applications in optical computing, and reconfigurable metasurfaces.

Stefan Preble, a professor in the Department of Electrical and Microelectronic Engineering, concluded a 10-week online course on fabless design of photonic integrated circuits (PIC-1) within the AIM ...

Researchers at Skoltech have developed an ultra-compact electro-optic modulator based on silicon photonics and plasmonics ...

One of the most promising new materials for photonic integrated circuits (PICs) is lithium niobate on insulator (LNOI). This platform offers a variety of unique optical characteristics, including a ...

Integrated circuits (ICs) are an integral part of modern technology, and they can be found in a wide array of devices, from smartphones and computers to medical diagnostic tools. However, conventional ...

By harnessing the unique properties of tantala (tantalum pentoxide), a team of US-based researchers has created a photonic integrated circuit that can be tuned to deliver laser light across a broad ...

A project at Washington University in St. Louis (WashU) is developing a portable OCT system based on photonic integrated circuits (PICs). Supported by a grant of up to $20 million from the Advanced ...

In the very near future, quantum computers are expected to revolutionize the way we compute, with new approaches to database searches, AI systems, simulations and more. But to achieve such novel ...

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has launched a program aimed at radically improving the performance of very large-scale photonic circuits. DARPA is seeking proposals for Photonic ...

EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland, has collaborated with Harvard and ETH Zurich on a new thin-film circuit that, when connected to a laser beam, produces finely-adjustable terahertz-frequency waves. The ...