Russian scientists developed the world's fastest nanoscale photonics switch

Researchers created an ultrafast all-optical switch on silicon nanostructures. This device may become a platform for fut…

In a classic eureka moment, a team of physicists led by The City College of New York and including Herriot-Watt Universi…

Physicists shorten electron pulses down to 30 femtoseconds duration. This enables them to gain detailed insight into ato…

The achievement brings skyrmions a step closer for use in real-world data storage as well as other novel magnetic and el…

FREEDOM HR-DUV uses a new innovative transmission grating, developed and manufactured by Ibsen Photonics. In contrast to…

Tractor beams are mysterious rays that can grab and lift objects. The concept has been used by science-fiction writers,…

UTS researchers have discovered a material that emits a single pulse of light at room temperature, and exists as a thin…

An ultrapure material taken to pressures greater than that in the depths of the ocean and chilled to temperatures colder…

Finding could have implications for high-temperature superconductivity

The physicists made the discovery while testing a laser-based measurement technique that they recently developed to

ICFO researchers develop a microscopic motor with a single particle, laser and electric fields.

Instead of using a gas, they used a single particle and lasers and electrical fields in replacement of the cylinders, pi…

In 1935, Einstein asked a profound question about our understanding of Nature: are objects only influenced by their near…

In quantum physics, electrons behave both as particles and as waves. The wave nature can be described by the spatial wav…

Quantum information can be sent optically, that is to say, using light, and the signal is comprised of photons, which is…

Controlling and studying the optical response in this way provides a powerful method which could be employed in fundamen…

Wi-Charge’s technology delivers up to 10W of power over 30 feet to multiple devices via an infrared light beam. This tec…

The combination of LVBPFs with silicon detectors allows the design of very compact, robust and

Phosphors are efficient light emitters but they’re not optimal for high-speed communications because they turn on and of…

A laser is aimed at the optical components in the laser-induced deflection process. The beam’s absorption leads to a ris…

Rotary piezoelectric smart stages and built-in controllers make the system smaller and easier to use than galvo scanner systems for dynamic scanning below 100Hz

A closed-loop controller is embedded in each tiny stage, making the complete system more than 25 times smaller than trad…

Coated for maximum transmission at common laser wavelengths

TECHSPEC Laser Line PCX Cylinder Lenses are offered with a choice of multiple precision anti-reflective coatings for com…