{"id":124961,"date":"2021-12-13T14:41:57","date_gmt":"2021-12-13T19:41:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/?p=124961"},"modified":"2021-12-13T14:41:57","modified_gmt":"2021-12-13T19:41:57","slug":"ucf-develops-the-worlds-first-optical-oscilloscope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/ucf-develops-the-worlds-first-optical-oscilloscope\/","title":{"rendered":"UCF Develops the World\u2019s First Optical Oscilloscope"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A team from UCF has developed the world\u2019s first optical oscilloscope, an instrument that is able to measure the electric field of light. The device converts light oscillations into electrical signals, much like hospital monitors convert a patient\u2019s heartbeat into electrical oscillation.<\/p>\n<p>Until now, reading the electric field of light has been a challenge because of the high speeds at which light waves oscillates. The most advanced techniques, which power our phone and internet communications, can currently clock electric fields at up to gigahertz frequencies \u2014 covering the radio frequency and microwave regions of the electromagnetic spectrum. Light waves oscillate at much higher rates, allowing a higher density of information to be transmitted. However, the current tools for measuring light fields could resolve only an average signal associated with a \u2018pulse\u2019 of light, and not the peaks and valleys within the pulse. Measuring those peaks and valleys within a single pulse is important because it is in that space that information can be packed and delivered.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFiber optic communications have taken advantage of light to make things faster, but we are still functionally limited by the speed of the oscilloscope,\u201d says Physics Associate Professor Michael Chini, who worked on the research at UCF. \u201cOur optical oscilloscope may be able to increase that speed by a factor of about 10,000.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The team\u2019s findings are published in this week\u2019s <em>Nature Photonics<\/em> journal.<\/p>\n<p>The team developed the device and demonstrated its capability for real-time measurement of the electric fields of individual laser pulses in Chini\u2019s lab at UCF. The next step for the team is to see how far they can push the speed limits of the technique.<\/p>\n<p>The lead author of the paper is UCF postdoctoral scholar Yangyang Liu. Other authors include <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/degree\/physics-phd\/\">physics<\/a> alums <strong>Jonathan Nesper \u201919<\/strong> <strong>\u201921MS<\/strong>, who earned his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/degree\/mathematics-bs\/\">bachelor\u2019s in math<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/degree\/physics-ms\/\">master\u2019s in physics<\/a>; \u00a0<strong>Shima Gholam-Mirzaei \u201918MS \u201920PhD<\/strong>; and <strong>John E. Beetar \u201915 \u201917MS \u201920PhD<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Gholam-Mirzaei is now a postdoctoral researcher at the Joint Attosecond Science Laboratory at the National Research Council of Canada and University of Ottawa and Beetar is completing a postdoc at the University of California at Berkeley.<\/p>\n<p>Chini had the idea for the single-shot waveform measurement scheme and oversaw the research team. Liu led the experimental effort and performed most of the measurements and simulations. Beetar assisted with the measurements of the carrier-envelope phase dependence. Nesper and Gholam-Mirzaei assisted with the construction of the experimental setup and with the data collection. All authors contributed to the data analysis and wrote the journal article.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The innovation could be a game-changer for communication technologies, such as phones and internet connections.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":124962,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"lazy_load_responsive_images_disabled":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":"","_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"categories":[6,23,24],"tags":[981,982,3715,14916],"tu_author":[],"class_list":["post-124961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","category-research","category-science-technology","tag-college-of-optics-and-photonics","tag-college-of-sciences","tag-physics","tag-research"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v22.3 (Yoast 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