A team of physicists at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University has predicted the existence…

Munich Physicists have developed a novel electron microscope that can visualize electromagnetic fields oscillating at frequencies of billions of cycles per second.

This instrument makes use of ultrashort pulses of laser light, each of which lasts for a few femtoseconds. These laser p…

A breakthrough into the full characterisation of quantum states has been published today as a prestigious Editors' Sugge…

With data rates of more than 2 gigabits per second, new approach in photodetection could simplify free-space optical communication and increase its scope of applications

Light-based wireless communication, also called free-space optical communications, offers a promising way to bring the i…

Yale University scientists have reached a milestone in their efforts to extend the durability and dependability of quant…

Researchers have demonstrated how to control the electron spin of a nanodiamond while it is levitated with lasers in a v…

Scientists at Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) have made an object disappear by using a material with nano-size particles that can enhance specific properties on the object’s surface.

The underlying design approach has much wider applications, ranging from microwave to optics for the control of any kind…

This work demonstrates a new way to control light and could lead to novel materials for many light-based applications in…

Until quite recently, creating a hologram of a single photon was believed to be impossible due to fundamental laws of ph…

Some “forbidden” light emissions are in fact possible, could enable new sensors and light-emitting devices.

Interactions between light and matter, described by the laws of quantum electrodynamics, are the basis of a wide range o…

Using folded DNA to precisely place glowing molecules within microscopic light resonators, researchers at Caltech have c…

In addition to saving time, the advance means the quantum dots are less likely to degrade, preserving their advantageous…

University of Otago physicists have used steerable ‘optical tweezers’ to split minute clouds of ultracold atoms and slow…

Physics, Astronomy & Interdisciplinary Science center could speed project’s growth

A chemistry professor at The University of New Mexico is building synthetic molecules that would revolutionize data stor…

Bifrost as rainbow bridge not only reminds of the visual appearance of our filters when looked through at sunlight. It a…

Aalto University scientists have broken the world record by fourteen fold in the energy resolution of thermal photodetection.

The record was made using a partially superconducting microwave detector. The discovery may lead to ultrasensitive camer…

With global data generation increasing by almost 50 per cent each year, Swinburne researchers are at the forefront of th…

Nearly 1,000 times thinner than a human hair, nanowires can only be understood with quantum mechanics. Using quantum mod…

MPQ-scientists have realised a photon-photon logic gate via a deterministic interaction with a strongly coupled atom-resonator system.

In the experiment presented here two independently polarised photons impinge, in quick succession, onto a resonator whic…

The researchers were also able to combine their optics with illumination systems. The optics on an LED which concentrate…