In a first for the field, researchers from The Grainger College of Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign ...

Researchers at the University of Illinois have pulled off a laser first: they built a new kind of eye-safe laser that works ...

So the photonic crystal club only has members with very puny lasers. Destroying a material to create a crystal. To get around this problem, researchers have proposed a way to make a photonic ...

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

Researchers at the University of Strathclyde have developed a new method for assembling ultra-small, light-controlling ...

For over two decades, physicists have been working toward implementing quantum light storage—also known as quantum memory—in ...

Light conducts around the edge of a simulated topological insulator, shown at the bottom of image. The topological insulator is made from a layer of a 2-D material resting atop a photonic crystal. The ...

A new type of photonic time crystal gives light a boost. ScienceDaily . Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2023 / 04 / 230405161316.htm ...

The entire process leaves an “inverse opal” photonic crystal containing a polymer waveguide, which is transparent to near-infrared light, with features less than 100 nm in resolution. To check it ...

Photonic crystal fibres have wavelength-scale morphological microstructure running down their length. This structure enables light to be controlled within the fibre in ways not previously possible ...

Photonic material in the shape of a flower can move in response to light, closely tracking the angle of maximum exposure. Credit: Fio Omenetto, Tufts University An artificial “sunflower” that ...