Science news articles about 'optical circuits'

  • Brightening the future for optical circuits

    (PhysOrg.com) -- By working together to share costs and know-how, European researchers are shaking up the way research and development is carried out on optical chips.
  • Brightening The Future For Optical Circuits

    By working together to share costs and know-how, European researchers are shaking up the way research and development is carried out on optical chips.
  • Silicon optical fiber made practical

    ... fiber opens the way for signal processing functions that are currently done electronically or in separate optical circuits to be performed directly inside the fiber, which allows for more compact, ...
  • The photonic beetle

    ... of a certain range of wavelengths. Materials with such bandgaps are necessary if researchers are to engineer optical circuits that can manipulate visible light. On the Path of the Beetle: From BYU to ...
  • Chasing rainbows

    ... chasing rainbows. They may not wish literally to capture all the colors of the spectrum, but they do seek to control the rate at which light from across the spectrum moves through optical circuits.
  • Using a grating with a grade, engineers trap a rainbow

    ... Gan. "Because of the diffraction limit of light, optical circuits are now much larger than their electronic ... nano-photonic circuits," he says. "This might even help us realize such novel applications ...
  • Quantum technologies move a step closer with the demonstration of an 'entanglement' filter

    ... a device has been proposed for photonic qubits, but the technical requirements to build such a device, an optical circuit with two extra photons and multiple quantum gates, requiring both quantum ...
  • Molecular machines drive plasmonic nanoswitches

    ... is large, limited by the light's wavelength. Plasmonics combines the best of electronic and optical circuits and can transmit electrons and light at the same time using the surface of the device. ...
  • New organic material may speed Internet access

    ... says Ivan Biaggio, resembles a phenomenon that, when it occurs at the smallest of scales on an integrated optical circuit, could hasten the day when the Internet works at superfast speeds. Biaggio, ...
  • Bridging the gap in nanoantennas

    ... , and explained the behavior of the loaded antennas within the framework of optical circuit theory. A simple circuit model showed remarkable agreement with the results of the numerical calculations of ...
  • Caltech scientists create nanoscale zipper cavity that responds to single photons of light

    ... be manipulated via other control light fields." This would create tunable photonics, "optical circuits that can be tuned with light." Additionally, the zipper cavity could lead to applications in RF ...

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