Light can be sculpted into countless shapes. Yet building optical devices that can simultaneously manipulate many different optical patterns at once is extremely complicated, and remains a major ...

A team of researchers at the Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering has created a new breakthrough in photonics: the design of the first optical device that follows the emerging ...

A single MXene-based optical gate switches between seven Boolean logic functions via voltage, enabling trainable photonic ...

Optical communication has revolutionized long-distance data transfer, but scaling it down to microchips is tougher. Now, though, a new technique means optical components can be integrated into general ...

Numerous component technologies are in use today to realize the range of passive and active functions needed for optical transmission systems. Many companies hope to provide lower prices and increased ...