A research team has developed innovative photonic crystal designs that significantly improve laser performance by mitigating ...

To address this challenge, Yagyu and Kuba’s team are working with Kyoto University on developing new photonic-crystal surface-emitting lasers (PCSELs), a type of laser diode. These contain a ...

Graded Photonic Crystal Design smooths transitions by gradually ... Notably, the team successfully demonstrated a 940 nm electrically pumped BIC laser with a Q-factor of 11,776, marking a ...

like photonic crystal fibers, which are optical fibers with an array of tiny air-filled holes running down their lengths. Blast a high-intensity monochromatic laser down one end, and white light ...

PCSELs, an advanced class of laser diodes, distribute optical gain laterally within a photonic crystal (PC) structure. By separating gain, feedback, and emission functions, they enable scalable ...

The research group led by Susumu Noda, professor of the Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University, has succeeded in enhancing the brightness *1 of a semiconductor laser to 1 GW cm-2 sr-1 based ...

Photonic Crystal Fibers (PCFs) represent one of the most successful and impactful applications of photonic crystals. These specialized optical fibers incorporate a microstructured arrangement of ...

A small international team of nanotechnologists, engineers and physicists has developed a way to force laser light into becoming ... viscosity and are formed in crystal-like structures similar ...