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Frequency combs — specialized lasers that act like rulers to measure light — are now being brought down to a low-power, chip-scale form. NIST researchers David
Devices that capture the brilliant light from millions of quantum dots, including chip-scale lasers and optical amplifiers, have made the transition from
Chip-based devices known as frequency combs, which measure the frequency of light waves with unparalleled precision, have revolutionized time keeping, the
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The discovery that externally-driven nonlinear optical resonators can sustain ultrashort pulses cor- responding to coherent optical frequency combs has enabled
Benedikt Hampel, Richard Mirin, Sae Woo Nam, Varun Verma
A large-format mid-infrared single-photon imager with very low dark count rates would enable a broad range of applications in fields like astronomy and
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