{"id":231956,"date":"2026-02-23T22:35:23","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T04:35:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/ultra-efficient-optical-sensors-can-keep-light-circulating-longer-inside-a-microscopic-chip"},"modified":"2026-02-23T22:35:23","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T04:35:23","slug":"ultra-efficient-optical-sensors-can-keep-light-circulating-longer-inside-a-microscopic-chip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/ultra-efficient-optical-sensors-can-keep-light-circulating-longer-inside-a-microscopic-chip","title":{"rendered":"Ultra-efficient optical sensors can keep light circulating longer inside a microscopic chip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ultra-efficient-optical-sensors-can-keep-light-circulating-longer-inside-a-microscopic-chip2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>CU Boulder researchers have built high-performing optical microresonators, opening the door for new sensor technologies. At its simplest form, a microresonator is a tiny device that can trap light and build up its intensity. Once the intensity is high enough, researchers can perform unique light operations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur work is about using less optical power with these resonators for future uses,\u201d said Bright Lu, a fourth-year doctoral student in electrical and computer engineering and a lead author on the study. \u201cOne day these microresonators can be adapted for a wide range of sensors from navigation to identifying chemicals.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For this endeavor, published in <i>Applied Physics Letters<\/i>, the team focused on \u201cracetrack\u201d resonators, named for their elongated shape that resembles a running track.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CU Boulder researchers have built high-performing optical microresonators, opening the door for new sensor technologies. At its simplest form, a microresonator is a tiny device that can trap light and build up its intensity. Once the intensity is high enough, researchers can perform unique light operations. \u201cOur work is about using less optical power with [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,1523,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-231956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-computing","category-engineering"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231956","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=231956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231956\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}