Researchers Demonstrate Record Optical Nonlinearity
Thursday, April 28, 2016 - 14:50
in Physics & Chemistry
New research may offer an alternative to the way in which researchers have approached some photonics applications. Photonics applications rely greatly on what physicists call nonlinear optics - the different way in which materials behave depending on the intensity of light that passes through them. Now a team has demonstrated that the transparent, electrical conductor indium tin oxide can result in up to 100 times greater nonlinearity than other known materials.