Asymmetric plasmonic antennas deliver femtosecond pulses for fast optoelectronics

Holleitner and his colleagues made yet another amazing discovery: Both the electrical and the terahertz pulses were non-…

MOICANA aims to demonstrate breakthrough performance by synergizing the best in class from the two worlds of Photonic In…

Physicists at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics in Garching observe strong interactions between photons of different color in an atom cavity system.

Making use of a single atom in an optical cavity, they observed two regimes in which the fields either block each other…

Using attosecond laser pulses they were able to measure a tiny time difference in the ejection of the electron from a mo…

The glass-like material is transformed ever so briefly into something akin to a metal. And the laser generates a burst o…

The Hong Kong Polytechnic University has developed a novel micro-embossing equipment for manufacturing precision glass l…

Ultra-confined light could detect harmful molecules

The researchers built nano-discs — the smallest about 50 nanometers high and 200 nanometers wide — made of two-dimension…

To change the quantum state of the photons, the researchers made use of techniques which are usually applied for the sha…

How many bits of information can be loaded on a single photon? Will doughnut-shaped pulses of light one day provide nove…

Researchers at QuTech in Delft have succeeded in generating quantum entanglement between two quantum chips faster than t…

Caltech's "fine-toothed" optical comb contributes to a fomenting technological revolution

The Caltech frequency comb relies on finely constructed optical resonators—basically, circular racetracks for trapped ph…

How can quantum information be transferred from one atom to another? A team of researchers from TU Wien and Harvard University has proposed using phonons – the quanta of sound.

A team of researchers from TU Wien and Harvard University has found a new way to transfer the necessary quantum informat…

In the new study, the researchers even predicted that the particles can act like different quantum balls called bosons t…

Reducing the wavelength of light could allow it to be absorbed or emitted by a semiconductor, study suggests.

The fundamental principle behind the new approach is a way to get the momentum of light particles, called photons, to mo…

In Experiment, they distributed the two photons entangled in three dimensions to two laboratories 8 meters apart and mea…

They developed a theoretical model that uses both the properties of quantum bits and the modes of the electromagnetic fi…

They discovered for the first time ever how the amount of omnipresent light noise depends on the size of any nanostructu…

Processes in the atomic microcosmos are revealed

They used optical travelling waves that are formed by laser pulses of varying wavelengths. The movements of electrons in…

Team is first to directly image propagation and dynamics of graphene plasmons at very low temperatures; findings could impact optical communications and signal processing

The Columbia researchers developed a practical approach to confining light to the nanoscale. They knew they could form p…

This work may lead to the development of new optoelectronic devices based on excitons