Conventional spontaneous Raman spectroscopy of interfacial molecules typically requires plasmonic or electronic enhancement, ...

In the increasingly digital world, the demand for faster, more efficient and miniaturized optical devices is ever-growing.

The study of nonlinear optical properties is central to the advancement of photonic technology, facilitating all‐optical switching, frequency conversion and optical limiting. These phenomena arise ...

Nonlinear optical chromophores and their integration into polymer matrices have emerged as a cornerstone of modern photonic materials research. These materials exhibit optical responses that are ...

Nonlinear excitation can be categorized into two types: natural and artificial. The natural type arises from the intrinsic nonlinear response of the material, while the artificial type stems from the ...

Researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) have developed an optical computing framework that performs large-scale nonlinear computations using linear materials. Reported in ...

In a lab at Osaka University, physicist Yoshiki Nakata and his colleagues fired a pulsed laser through a stack of three passive optical components and watched it shatter into 3,070 tiny, spinning ...

Van der Waals (vdW) materials are promising building blocks for next-generation nanophotonics because of their atomically smooth surfaces, diverse ...

A single MXene-based optical gate switches between seven Boolean logic functions via voltage, enabling trainable photonic networks for AI tasks. (Nanowerk Spotlight) All-optical logic platforms are ...

USC engineers have developed an optical system that routes light autonomously using thermodynamic principles. Rather than relying on switches, light organizes itself much like particles in a gas ...