{"id":150399,"date":"2022-11-16T22:22:24","date_gmt":"2022-11-17T04:22:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/an-on-chip-time-lens-generates-ultrafast-pulses"},"modified":"2022-11-16T22:22:24","modified_gmt":"2022-11-17T04:22:24","slug":"an-on-chip-time-lens-generates-ultrafast-pulses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/an-on-chip-time-lens-generates-ultrafast-pulses","title":{"rendered":"An on-chip time-lens generates ultrafast pulses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/an-on-chip-time-lens-generates-ultrafast-pulses.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Femtosecond pulsed lasers\u2014which emit light in ultrafast bursts lasting a millionth of a billionth of a second\u2014are powerful tools used in a range of applications from medicine and manufacturing, to sensing and precision measurements of space and time. Today, these lasers are typically expensive table-top systems, which limits their use in applications that have size and power consumption restrictions.<\/p>\n<p>An on-chip femtosecond pulse source would unlock new applications in quantum and optical computing, astronomy, optical communications and beyond. However, it\u2019s been a challenge to integrate tunable and highly efficient pulsed lasers onto chips.<\/p>\n<p>Now, researchers from the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have developed a high-performance, on-chip femtosecond pulse source using a tool that seems straight out of science fiction: a time lens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Femtosecond pulsed lasers\u2014which emit light in ultrafast bursts lasting a millionth of a billionth of a second\u2014are powerful tools used in a range of applications from medicine and manufacturing, to sensing and precision measurements of space and time. Today, these lasers are typically expensive table-top systems, which limits their use in applications that have size [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1523,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-150399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-computing","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150399\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}