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 ...

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 ...

The onset of nonlinear dynamics and chaos is evidenced in a mid-infrared distributed feedback quantum cascade laser both in the temporal and frequency domains. As opposed to the commonly observed ...

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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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 ...