Researchers at the Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering have achieved a major advance in photonics with the creation of the first optical device based on the emerging concept of optical thermodynamics.
Their study, published in Nature Photonics, presents a completely new method for directing light within nonlinear systems (systems that operate without switches, external control, or digital input). In this setup, light doesn’t need to be steered or adjusted—it naturally travels through the device, following the basic laws of thermodynamics.
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