A new press release highlights the exciting work from the laboratory of Prof. Kent Choquette, a longtime IEEE Photonics Society member and contributor, at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Featured in the IEEE Photonics Journal, the team’s research shows how light from multiple vertical cavity surface-emitting lasers (VCSELs) can be combined to create a brighter, more controllable single beam known as a “supermode.”
The work explores advanced photonic crystal designs and showcases an impactful collaboration between academic researchers and Dallas Quantum Devices, which fabricated the prototype using a foundry-level process.
As Prof. Choquette notes, “This is the reason we do research like this: applications aren’t always obvious, and the only way to know is to try it out.”
Read the full press release on Optics.org: https://optics.org/news/16/7/53
Photo credit: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign / Grainger College of Engineering
