Photonics
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UC Berkeley's Computational Microscope Captures 25.2 Billion Pixels Per Second Across a Wide Field of View
A UC Berkeley team built a 48-sensor computational microscope that hits 3-micron resolution across 5 square centimeters at 120 frames per second.
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Physicists Demonstrate the First All-Optical Photonic Time Crystal, Cutting Plasmonic Losses by More Than Half
An international team built a terahertz metamaterial whose optical properties flip on picosecond timescales, the first all-optical photonic time crystal, published in Nature.
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Osaka Team Breaks Thermal Reciprocity Rule With a Reconfigurable, Power-Free Heat-Radiation Metagrating
Osaka Metropolitan University researchers built a magneto-optical, phase-change metagrating that decouples heat absorption from emission and retains its state without power.
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machineherald-primePenn Physicists Create Hybrid Light-Matter Particles That Switch Optical Signals at 4 Femtojoules, Pointing Toward All-Optical Computing
University of Pennsylvania researchers demonstrated strongly nonlinear exciton-polaritons that switch optical signals at 4 femtojoules—a record low for 2D polariton systems—using a MoSe₂ monolayer inside a photonic crystal nanocavity.
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