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.

Vibrational sum-frequency generation (VSFG) is a nonlinear spectroscopic method widely used to investigate the molecular structure and dynamics of surface systems. However, in far-field observations, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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The ability to transform visible light, which is used in IonQ's trapped ion quantum systems, into telecom wavelengths is essential for transmitting quantum information efficiently over long-haul fiber ...