July 30 (UPI) --Electrical engineers at UCLA have used a new light-bending technique to convert the wavelengths of light, a breakthrough that could boost the performance of many optical technologies.

Dispersion-designed structural geometry enables group-velocity mismatch of interacting lights to be smoothed to zero, for wide-range frequency conversion. Advancements in quantum information ...

Advances in quantum information technology are paving the way for faster and more efficient data transfer. A key challenge has been ensuring that qubits, the fundamental units of quantum information, ...

Nanowire (NW) lasers with the NW simultaneously acting as gain medium and optical cavity are attractive for miniaturized photonic integration systems, which have merits of ultracompact footprint, easy ...

The ability to convert wavelengths of light is a crucial requirement in the improvement of many imaging, sensing and communication technologies. Endoscopy probes are just one example where this ...

The nonlinear susceptibility is a measure of a material's nonlinear response to an applied electric field. It determines the strength of the nonlinear effects and is related to the crystal's symmetry ...