A team of researchers has developed a novel method for using cholesteric liquid crystals in optical microcavities. The ...

The holographic fabrication of photonic crystals represents a cutting‐edge method in the field of nanophotonics, utilising the interference of multiple coherent beams to generate intricate ...

The candidate pool for engineered materials that can help enable tomorrow's cutting-edge optical technologies—such as lasers, ...

Photonic crystals are periodic optical structures that can control the flow of light. Multiple reflections from surfaces separated by a distance similar to the wavelength prevent an optical beam ...

Researchers have developed a new class of nanomaterial that helps to manipulate light and improve the sensitivity of ...

Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest sci-tech news updates. The University researchers discovered that unique optical microresonators can be introduced at the intersection of two optical fibers.

More pathways than previously thought can lead to optical topological insulators, materials with exciting properties that could have future ...

Researchers created nanoscale glass structures with near-perfect reflectance, overturning long-held assumptions about what low-index materials can do in photonics.

These edible microlasers are composed of droplets of oil or water–glycerol mixtures doped with natural optical gain ...