It’s always interesting to see how scientists and engineers have exploited—in the positive sense of the word—somewhat obscure, fundamental physics principles to create innovative sensors. For example, ...

Nanophotonics uses light polarization as an information carrier in optical communications, sensing, and imaging. Likewise, the state of polarization of light plays a key role in the photonic transfer ...

Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, Vol. 132, No. 1015 (2020 September), pp. 1-12 (12 pages) The use of single-mode fibers (SMFs) to illuminate radial velocity (RV) spectrographs ...

Photodetectors capable of simultaneously measuring light intensity, wavelength, and polarization are pivotal for advancing optical technologies in fields ranging from autonomous systems to quantum ...

The demand for greater data throughput seems endless, and it is accelerating faster than many people expected, creating bottlenecks in fiber-optics networks. Digital transmissions of 100 Gbps, which ...

(Nanowerk News) Liquid-crystal (LC) phase modulators are widely used in optical systems because of their advantages of low power consumption, light weight, flexible bandwidth adjustment, and ...