Optical sensors are a broad class of device for detecting light intensity. This can be just a simple component for notifying when ambient light levels rise above or fall below a prescribed level ...
An international research team has for the first time designed realistic photonic time crystals ---- exotic materials that exponentially amplify light. The breakthrough opens up exciting possibilities ...
Over the past few decades, research and development programmes have highlighted how silicon photonic modulators could see use in optical data communication, sensing, biomedical technologies ...