MIT researchers have built a nanoscale photonic device shaped like a tiny ski jump that launches laser light directly off a silicon chip and steers it through free space. Reported by MIT on March 11, ...

Photonic integrated circuits route information with optical signals instead of relying only on electrical currents. Silicon ...

Scientists have developed the first electrically pumped continuous-wave semiconductor laser composed exclusively of elements from the fourth group of the periodic table -- the 'silicon group'. Built ...

A new study from MIT researchers could help to enable next-generation lidar sensors that are compact, durable, and have no moving parts. The key advance is a novel design for a silicon-photonics chip.

Integrated photonics has quietly become one of the most consequential technologies of the modern era, carrying the data that flow through data centers, enabling LiDAR systems, and increasingly ...

Integrating a light-routing chip, microscopic reflectors, and a metasurface enables high-quality two-dimensional ...