Photonics Research | October 2007
Researchers at the University of Massachusetts Lowell and at Raytheon Missile Systems in Tucson, Ariz., have produced a long-wave infrared quantum...
Optical bistability exists when an optical system is capable of operating in two modes under identical external conditions. If the optical system is...
Whispering-gallery modes are the resonances that occur inside round objects (spheres, cylinders, disks) when light bounces around the object’s...
During the late 1990s, scientists investigated Q-switched microchip lasers that were fabricated by pressing a thin slab of laser material — usually,...
There are many challenges to be overcome before photonic connections can replace electronic ones in computers and other equipment. Nonetheless, that...
Materials with a milky-white appearance hardly seem a likely choice for making lenses. Any light that manages to penetrate such materials comes out...