{"id":218949,"date":"2025-07-29T08:10:03","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T13:10:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/ultra-small-optical-devices-rewrite-the-rules-of-light-manipulation"},"modified":"2025-07-29T08:10:03","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T13:10:03","slug":"ultra-small-optical-devices-rewrite-the-rules-of-light-manipulation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/ultra-small-optical-devices-rewrite-the-rules-of-light-manipulation","title":{"rendered":"Ultra-small optical devices rewrite the rules of light manipulation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ultra-small-optical-devices-rewrite-the-rules-of-light-manipulation2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the push to shrink and enhance technologies that control light, MIT researchers have unveiled a new platform that pushes the limits of modern optics through nanophotonics, the manipulation of light on the nanoscale, or billionths of a meter.<\/p>\n<p>The result is a class of ultra-compact optical devices that are not only smaller and more efficient than existing technologies, but also dynamically tunable, or switchable, from one optical mode to another. Until now, this has been an elusive combination in nanophotonics.<\/p>\n<p>The work is reported in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41566-025-01712-2\" target=\"_blank\">July 8 issue<\/a> of Nature Photonics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the push to shrink and enhance technologies that control light, MIT researchers have unveiled a new platform that pushes the limits of modern optics through nanophotonics, the manipulation of light on the nanoscale, or billionths of a meter. The result is a class of ultra-compact optical devices that are not only smaller and more [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-218949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nanotechnology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218949","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218949\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}