Here’s the scene: a suspicious package is found in a public place. The police are called in and clear the area. Forced to work from a distance and unable to peer inside, they fear the worst and decide to detonate the package. New research at the University of Rochester might help authorities in the not-too-distant…
‘Game-Changer’ for Photonics: Researchers Demonstrate Record Optical Nonlinearity
Work by an internationally renowned University of Rochester professor may offer an alternative to the way in which researchers have approached some photonics applications. Photonics applications rely greatly on what physicists call nonlinear optics – the different way in which materials behave depending on the intensity of light that passes through them. The greater the nonlinearity, the…