Optics & Photonics

Light as wire, light as scalpel

Components that bend, focus, time-stamp, and slice light at the limits of what physics permits. Mirrors flatter than a virus, lenses thinner than a hair, and detectors that flinch at one photon at a time.

15 entries in this room.

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• Supermirror Substrate (Fused Silica)
• Kerr Microresonator Frequency Comb
• Superconducting Nanowire Single-Photon Detector (SNSPD)
• Acousto-Optic Modulator (AOM)
• Photonic Integrated Waveguide
• Optical Tweezers
• Metasurface Lens
• Fiber Bragg Grating
• Photonic Crystal Fiber
• Lithium Niobate EO Modulator
• Chirped Pulse Amplifier
• Integrating Sphere
• STED Microscope
• Gravitational-Wave Interferometer (LIGO)
• Erbium-Doped Fiber Amplifier
• All Exotic Technologies