A team of University of Illinois researchers at the Micro + Nanotechnology Lab recently applied new theoretical physics concepts to enhance the performance of a well-established semiconductor laser technology. In a paper published in Optica, Kent Choquette, a professor of electrical and computer engineering (ECE), and his group reported parity-time (PT) symmetry breaking in an … Read more…
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