A Caltech team has developed a highly efficient method to provide coherent light of any wavelength from visible to mid-infrared with a single tiny device ...

(Nanowerk News) Physicists at JILA have created the first "frequency comb" in the extreme ultraviolet band of the spectrum, high-energy light less than 100 nanometers (nm) in wavelength.

Banner image: UV light being emitted by a krypton chloride excimer lamp, fueled by molecules moving between different states of energy. (Credit: Linden Research Group) A specific wavelength of ...

A research team co-led by Qiang Lin, a professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Rochester, NY, USA, developed the first multi-wavelength integrated laser to achieve the ...

Focused laser-like light that covers a wide range of frequencies is highly desirable for many scientific studies and for many applications, for instance, quality control of manufacturing semiconductor ...

Upconversion: An artist's view of the nanoparticle-in-groove plasmonic cavities created by the EPFL team. (Courtesy: Nicolas Antille, http://www.nicolasantille.com) A ...

Silicon-based device “like a nanoscale optical parametric oscillator” could enable variety of photonic applications. Silicon-based device may enable variety of photonic applications. Researchers have ...

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