A compact thermal polarization modulator using phase-change material, offering a non-mechanical approach to increase optical ...

Schematic diagram (a) and photo (b) of the fabricated gas-filled hollow-core fiber phase modulator. (c) Measured loss spectrum and (d) transient response of the phase modulator. Credit: ...

The lithium niobate thin-film modulator was designed to achieve a modulation frequency of 350 kHz within the 0–2π phase range, further realizing high speed control of optical field coherence.

A new technical paper titled “Hybrid tungsten oxyselenide/graphene electrodes for near-lossless 2D semiconductor phase modulators” was published by researchers at Nanyang Technological University, ...

Liquid-crystal (LC) phase modulators are widely used in optical systems because of their advantages of low power consumption, lightweight, flexible bandwidth adjustment, and non-mechanical movements.

A new Microelectromechanical system (MEMS) grating modulator has been developed, offering significant advancements in optical efficiency and scalability for communication systems. By integrating a ...

A programmable terahertz chip combines penetrative sensing, nonvolatile optical encoding, and hardware preprocessing, classifying vehicle motion with 92.3% accuracy and recovering encoded information ...

Photonics is forcing EDA to verify not just chips, but the physics of light inside full electro-optical systems.

Researchers have found a way to speed up components that control light polarization in optical communication and computing. Polarization is a property of light that can carry additional information ...