{"id":171474,"date":"2023-09-06T22:24:42","date_gmt":"2023-09-07T03:24:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/atomic-scale-spin-optical-laser-new-horizon-for-optoelectronic-devices"},"modified":"2023-09-06T22:24:42","modified_gmt":"2023-09-07T03:24:42","slug":"atomic-scale-spin-optical-laser-new-horizon-for-optoelectronic-devices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/atomic-scale-spin-optical-laser-new-horizon-for-optoelectronic-devices","title":{"rendered":"Atomic-scale spin-optical laser: New horizon for optoelectronic devices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/atomic-scale-spin-optical-laser-new-horizon-for-optoelectronic-devices.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers at the Technion\u2014Israel Institute of Technology have developed a coherent and controllable spin-optical laser based on a single atomic layer. This discovery is enabled by coherent spin-dependent interactions between a single atomic layer and a laterally confined photonic spin lattice, the latter of which supports high-Q spin-valley states through the photonic Rashba-type spin splitting of a bound state in the continuum.<\/p>\n<p>Published in <i>Nature Materials<\/i> and also featured in the journal\u2019s Research Briefing, the achievement paves the way to study coherent spin-dependent phenomena in both classical and quantum regimes, opening new horizons in <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/fundamental+research\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">fundamental research<\/a> and optoelectronic devices exploiting both electron and photon spins.<\/p>\n<p>Can we lift the spin degeneracy of light sources in the absence of magnetic fields at room temperature? According to Dr. Rong, \u201cSpin-optical light sources combine photonic modes and electronic transitions and therefore provide a way to study the exchange of spin information between electrons and photons and to develop advanced optoelectronic devices.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers at the Technion\u2014Israel Institute of Technology have developed a coherent and controllable spin-optical laser based on a single atomic layer. This discovery is enabled by coherent spin-dependent interactions between a single atomic layer and a laterally confined photonic spin lattice, the latter of which supports high-Q spin-valley states through the photonic Rashba-type spin splitting [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-171474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171474","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=171474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171474\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}