Semiconductor nanowire lasers are a crucial component for on-chip integrated optoelectronics. However, silicon-integrated, room-temperature, continuously-operating and electrically-pumped nanowire ...

Researchers at IMDEA Nanociencia have fabricated high quality microspheres from conjugated organic polymer blends with excellent lasing properties. The laser emission of the microspheres has the ...

Colloidal quantum-dots (CQDs) have emerged as promising gain media for lasers, offering low lasing thresholds, compatibility with low-cost solution-based synthesis and processing methods, and tunable ...

(Nanowerk News) Transistors in computer chips work electrically, but the data can be transmitted more quickly with light. Researchers have therefore been looking for a way to integrate a laser ...

Room-temperature nanolasers are crucial for advancing optical communication and photonic quantum technologies due to their capability to generate coherent light at a subwavelength scale. However, ...

Researchers demonstrated that nanowires made from lead halide perovskite are the most efficient nanowire lasers known.. Known for their low cost, simple processing and high efficiency, perovskites are ...

A compact, integrated titanium:sapphire laser that needs only a simple green LED as a pump source has been created by researchers at Stanford University in the US. Their design reduces the cost and ...

(Nanowerk News) Dielectric optical microresonators confine and concentrate light in a tiny circular path due to multiple near total internal reflections at the curved dielectric-air interface, where ...

Over the past decade, the idea of photonic computing - where electrons are replaced with light in microelectronic circuits - has emerged as a future technology. This promises low-cost, ...