Stanford researchers have developed a novel, inverse-designed wavelength division multiplexer (WDM) that integrates high-performance Bragg gratings for use in optical communication systems.
As the demand for faster internet, improved bandwidth, and enhanced data security grows, researchers from Stanford and Aalto University have introduced metacrystals—a novel class of passive intelligent surfaces designed to revolutionize wireless communication.
Stanford researchers have developed flat, ultrathin (sub 100nm) optical elements based on high index nanostructures which can be alternatives to refractive optical elements such as gratings, lenses, and axicons.
Undulator magnet cores are essential for advanced applications such as synchrotron radiation sources, advanced chip manufacturing, and fusion technology. SLAC researchers have a new manufacturing approach that achieves greater precision at significantly lower costs.
Stanford University and University of Wisconsin–Madison researchers have developed a new device to achieve upconversion (UC) of incoherent near-infrared (NIR) photons beyond 1100nm to visible photons, through sensitized triplet–triplet annihilation (TTA).
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.
The Fan Lab at Stanford University has developed an ultra-fast, physics-augmented, deep learning enhanced surrogate field solver for high-speed electromagnetic simulation and optimization. Denoising WaveY-Net uses a two-stage approach to target different field error sources.
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.
As part of a comprehensive optofluidic platform, researchers at Stanford have developed an integrated dynamic flat-optics system enabling microlens-free metasurface planar light-field displays.
Stanford researchers in the Brongersma Lab have developed an integrated dynamic flat-optics system as part of a comprehensive optofluidic platform, enabling unprecedented compact configurations.
As part of a comprehensive optofluidic platform, researchers at Stanford have developed a new type of reflective display technology for achieving transparent displays, which allow users to receive visual information from the external world through the display at the same time.