Industry analysis indicates that the market is moving decisively beyond simple LED replacement fixtures toward integrated, smart-ready lighting systems. The core challenge for optical manufacturers is ...

A nanoscale optical device has been developed that allows independent control over the intensity and phase of light. By applying voltage, this innovative device can freely manipulate the phase and ...

Researchers have created a bilayer metasurface made of two stacked layers of titanium dioxide nanostructures, opening new possibilities for structuring light. Almost a decade ago, Harvard engineers ...

Engineers built a nanoscale optical device that uses voltage to control light's phase and intensity, advancing quantum communication and compact optical technologies. The device, developed by ...

Engineering researchers report that they developed a new, efficient way to modulate and enhance an important type of nonlinear optical process: optical second harmonic generation -- where two input ...

A tiny optical device built into a silicon chip has achieved the slowest light propagation on a chip to date, reducing the speed of light by a factor of 1,200 in a study reported in Nature Photonics ...

A nanophotonic diffractive network performs morphological image processing, including dilation and erosion, purely through light propagation.