(Nanowerk News) The field of integrated photonics has taken off in recent years. These microchips utilise light particles (photons) in their circuitry as opposed to the electronic circuits that, in ...

Coherent backscattering, also referred to as weak localization, is an exciting multidisciplinary phenomenon that appears in disordered systems of multiple coherent-wave scattering. Providing proper ...

Engineers at Duke University have demonstrated a device that can direct photons of light around sharp corners with virtually no losses due to backscattering, a key property that will be needed if ...

Grating couplers are a fundamental building block of integrated optics as they allow light to be coupled from free-space to on-chip components and vice versa. A challenging task in designing any ...

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- Engineers at the University of Illinois have found a way to redirect misfit light waves to reduce energy loss during optical data transmission. In a study, researchers exploited an ...

Engineers at the University of Illinois, US, have found a way to redirect misfit light waves to reduce energy loss during optical data transmission. The researchers have exploited an interaction ...

A Rutherford backscattering spectrometer (RBS) system can be applied to the study of surface coatings. The technique permits the study of inhomogeneous surface layers, including a determination of the ...

Researchers raise fundamental questions about the proposed value of topological protection against backscattering in integrated photonics. The field of integrated photonics has taken off in recent ...