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Breaking Single-Mode Fiber Transmission Capacity Using Space-Division Multiplexing
December 31, 2014
Optical fiber communication is the backbone for the telecommunications infrastructure. Fueled by emerging bandwidth-hungry applications, the Internet traffic has sustained an exponential growth in the
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Single-Mode Microring Lasers
December 31, 2014
Since the invention of the laser, there has been a continuous effort to increase its coherence. High temporal and spatial coherence is what makes lasers
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Breaking Newton’s Third Law of Motion
December 31, 2013
Newton’s third law states that the action-reaction forces involved in an elemental two-body interaction must be equal and opposite. Combined with the second law of
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New paradigms for light-matter interaction
December 31, 2013
Due to negative forces, surface-bound droplets move opposite to the directio of illumination. After Nature Photonics 7, 787 (2013). Light induces mechanical action in
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Next-generation platform for integrated photonics
December 31, 2013
Professor Sasan Fathpour and members of his research team (Research Scientist Dr. P. Rabiei, and graduate students J. Ma, S. Khan and J. Chiles) have developed a new way of integrating
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Nanospheres Fabricated by Optical Fiber Drawing
December 31, 2013
When thinking of an optical fiber, one usually imagines the thin strands of glass that extend for thousands of kilometers around the globe forming the
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Laser pulses: Shorter, Faster, and Stronger
December 31, 2013
The quest for the shortest attosecond laser pulse has been underway since the first demonstration of such light sources in 2001. Single attosecond pulses with
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