Inside most photonic chips, light races through tiny optical wires. It carries information far faster than electricity can in many conventional systems.

Photonic chips use light to process data instead of electricity, enabling faster communication speeds and greater bandwidth. Most of that light typically stays on the chip, trapped in optical wires, ...

Scientists have demonstrated a sort of holographic strip that splits a single laser beam into five bespoke beams that create an optical knot. The work shows that optical knots could be used as a ...

Scientists in China have developed a metasurface platform that realizes true three-dimensional (3D) vectorial holography by independently engineering the intensity and polarization of light along the ...

A surprising trick that allows a beam of light to be completely absorbed even in the thinnest of layers: Using mirrors and lenses, a 'light trap' can be constructed, in which the light beam is steered ...