Researchers at Stanford have developed a new type of light source for spectroscopy applications, making it smaller and more energy efficient. Furthermore, this application allows a broad range of wavelengths without the interference from a pump laser.
Active manipulation of light beams is required for a range of emerging optical technologies, including sensing, optical computing, virtual/augmented reality, dynamic holography, and computational imaging.
Researchers at Stanford are developing a device that uses quantum engineered states and interactions to detect electromagnetic waves with a sensitivity and bandwidth beyond that possible with existing technology.
Stanford researchers in the Vuckovic group have developed an optical phased array (OPA) for solid-state beam-steering in optical systems such as LIDAR, projectors, and microscopy.
Researchers at Stanford have developed a tunable metasurface with high reflectance and large phase modulation for use as optical phase modulators or beam steering device (Lidar). Currently, the large size of beam steering devices is a critical problem.
Researchers at Stanford have developed methods for evaluating the position of a micro-electromechanical system (MEMS) device in terms of phase and/or amplitude characteristics.
Researchers at Stanford are advancing a new class of nonlinear optical devices that operate with significantly lower energy requirements than previous platforms.
Researchers in the Dionne group at Stanford have designed a nanoscale laser capable of self-isolated Raman Lasing, where lasing and isolation occurs within the same pumping mechanism.
Stanford researchers have developed a simple optical device for low-power, active light tuning. The device tunes the color of light across the visible spectrum and at select wavelengths by electrical biasing an array of micron sized pixels or nanowires.
Stanford researchers at the Vuckovic Lab have developed a dispersion engineered phased array which can be used as a beam steering device for compact LIDAR or ranging systems critical for self-driving cars, logistics, and the security sector.
Stanford researchers developed a method to make large phase shifts with little or no power dissipation in integrated optics. The approach uses a directional coupler moved by a MEMS actuator to achieve a path delay, i.e. an effective change in refractive index.
Stanford researchers at the Vuckovic Lab have created a computational nanophotonic design library for gradient-based optimization called the Stanford Photonic INverse design Software (Spins).