Nature

Optically induced diffraction gratings based on periodic modulation of linear and nonlinear effects for atom-light coupling quantum systems near plasmonic nanostructures

During the recent decades, nonlinear optical properties of various atomic 1,2,3,4 and other coherent media 5,6 have been well studied due to quantum interference and coherence. As examples and owning ...
Nature

Theory and simulation of far field diffraction patterns in Talbot-based transient grating spectroscopy at X-ray free electron lasers

Transient grating (TG) spectroscopy is a time-resolved technique that belongs to the broader family of nonlinear four-wave mixing methods. It is best understood as the time-domain analogue of ...
Science Daily

Logic with light: Introducing diffraction casting, optical-based parallel computing

Increasingly complex applications such as artificial intelligence require ever more powerful and power-hungry computers to run. Optical computing is a proposed solution to increase speed and power ...