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Researchers report the development of ultrahigh refractive index metamaterials which are integrated with a low refractive index polymer producing distributed Bragg reflector (DBR). The highest ...

Physicists at Harvard University in the US have built a silicon waveguide that exhibits a refractive index of, or close to, zero when operating at near-infrared telecom wavelengths. The waveguide can ...

This will potentially allow to create more compact and efficient elements for lasers, sensors, and optical chips. Moreover, it proves the hypothesis that physicists had about the connection between a ...

Discover how wave refraction works, why it happens and how it affects surfing in this easy-to-understand guide.

Researchers at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) say they have made it easier to manipulate light at the nanoscale. They have developed the first on-chip ...

The researchers alternately laminated film of this high-refractive-index material and film of a low-refractive-index material to form a dielectric mirror1) and then used the mirror for magneto ...