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A compact, mid-infrared pulse generator
Physicists in the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have created a compact laser that emits extremely bright, short pulses of light in a useful but difficult-to-achieve wavelength range, packing the performance of larger photonic devices onto a single chip.
Apr 18, 20254 min read


Programmable pixels could advance infrared light applications
A new active metasurface, the electrical-programmable graphene field effect transistor (Gr-FET), from the labs of Sheng Shen and Xu Zhang...
Apr 3, 20252 min read


Doubling down on metasurfaces
“This is a feat of nanotechnology at the highest level,” said senior author Federico Capasso. “It opens up a new way to structure light...
Apr 2, 20253 min read


Ultra-thin, ultra-fast: from nanoscale to starlight, a breakthrough lightsail era begins
Researchers develop new design and fabrication method to make lightsails for interstellar travel
Mar 29, 20254 min read


Breakthrough in deep ultraviolet laser technology
Researchers developed a compact, solid-state laser system that generates 193-nm coherent light — the first 193-nm vortex beam
Mar 22, 20252 min read


Researchers demonstrate laser writing with unprecedented speed and resolution
For the first time, researchers have used high-speed laser writing to create lines spaced just 100 nm apart on a glass substrate. The optimi
Feb 28, 20253 min read
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