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Trapping Light that Doesn't Bounce off Track for Faster Electronics

News: July 30, 2018
Replacing traditional computer chip components with light-based counterparts will eventually make electronic devices faster due to the wide bandwidth of light. A new protective metamaterial "cladding" prevents light from leaking out of the very curvy pathways it would travel in a computer chip.

Nano-Optical Cables for Wiring Up Photonic Circuits

News: August 21, 2014
Researchers at the University of Alberta, Canada, have proposed a new approach to confining light at subdiffraction wavelengths, using transparent metamaterials—without creating heat or losing data, and with dramatically reduced crosstalk.

Topological optical N-insulators

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Quantum gyroelectric effect: Photon spin-1 quantization in continuum topological bosonic phases Topological phases of matter arise in distinct fermionic and bosonic flavors. The fundamental differences between them are encapsulated in their rotational symmetries—the spin. Although spin quantization...

Dipole-dipole interactions in nanophotonics

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Single photon pulse induced transient entanglement force We show that a single photon pulse incident on two interacting two-level atoms induces a transient entanglement force between them. After absorption of a multi-mode Fock state pulse, the time-dependent atomic interaction mediated by the vacuum...

Spin qubits and photonic spin density

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Quantum sensing of photonic spin density using a single spin qubit Nitrogen vacancy (NV) centers in diamond have emerged as promising room temperature quantum sensors for probing condensed matter phenomena ranging from spin liquids, 2D magnetic materials, and magnons to hydrodynamic flow of current...

Vacuum Fluctuations & Casimir forces

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Singular evanescent wave resonances in moving media Resonators fold the path of light by reflections leading to a phase balance and thus constructive addition of propagating waves. However, amplitude decrease of these waves due to incomplete reflection or material absorption leads to a finite...