A new method of controlling the spin of an electron, one of the fastest-developing research topics in quantum-based tech…

Scientists have been able to manufacture three-dimensional isotropic metamaterials, but up to now only on a very small s…

Ultrafast electron diffraction experiments open a new window on the microscopic world

This ultrafast instrumentation combines tools and techniques of electron microscopy with those of laser spectroscopy in…

Researchers at Swinburne University of Technology have revealed an exciting new development in optical data storage, ima…

What began as research into a method to strengthen metals has led to the discovery of a new technique that uses a pulsin…

Bodkin Design Develops Special Purpose Infrared Equipment for Precise Radiometric Calibration.

These products are built for applications such as thermal imaging calibration, target projection, and infrared detector

In the recent demonstration, NIST's pair of laser frequency combs measured the simultaneous signatures of several greenh…

Berkeley Lab reports method for symmetry-breaking in feedback-driven self-assembly of optical metamaterials

The researchers demonstrated self-assembled optical metamaterials with tailored broken-symmetries and hence unique elect…

At the Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien), two photons were made to interact strongly using an ultra-thin glass fibre. This technique is an important new tool for quantum technology.

Two photons in free space do not interact. Light waves can pass through each other without having any influence on each…

In a close collaborative effort, Spanish and Austrian physicists have experimentally encoded one quantum bit in entangle…

New research has unlocked the secrets of efficiency in nanomaterials, that is, materials with very tiny particles, which…

Tübingen researchers control interplay of light and matter at the level of individual photons emitted by rubidium

The new method can be used in the future to read and process quantum information which has been stored in the atom with…

Researchers of the FOM Institute AMOLF and the California Institute of Technology have discovered a new method to genera…

Most optical coatings are used to enhance reflection or transmission properties of a substrate material within an optica…

The new instrument, called a fixed-length optical cavity, works by detecting subtle changes in the wavelength of light p…

The next generation ultra-fast Internet or ground-breaking electronic circuits powered by light instead of electricity c…

The AOT-100 Aerosol Optical Tweezers, which is capable of holding and manipulating single or multiple particles for inde…

A spin Hall effect without all the fuss

Atom-optical lattice systems offer a clean, well-controlled way to study the manipulation and movement of spins because…

Recently, many different systems have been proposed for the physical implementation of a quantum bit. Very promising pro…

When studying extremely fast reactions in ultrathin materials, two measurements are better than one. A new research tool…