Trapping Light: A Long Lifetime in a Very Small Place
Monday, June 16, 2014 - 11:32
in Physics & Chemistry
Physicists at the University of Rochester have created a silicon nanocavity that allows light to be trapped longer than in other similarly-sized optical cavities. An innovative design approach, which mimics evolutionary biology, allowed them to achieve a 10-fold improvement on the performance of previous nanocavities.