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Ultrasmall optical devices rewrite the rules of light manipulation
In the push to shrink and enhance technologies that control light, MIT researchers unveiled a new platform that pushes the limits of modern optics through nanophotonics, the manipulation of light on the nanoscale.
The marriage of emerging quantum materials and established nanophotonics architectures will surely bring advances to both fields,” says Riccardo Comin, MIT’s Class of 1947 Career Development Associate Professor of Physics and leader of the work. “Tunability is essential for many next-gen photonics applications, enabling adaptive imaging, precision sensing, reconfigurable light sources, and trainable optical neural networks,” says Vaidya. Although this is below room temperature, there are compelling use cases, such as quantum simulation, nonlinear optics, and reconfigurable polaritonic platforms, where the unparalleled tunability of CrSBr could justify operation in cryogenic environments.
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