Using Meta-surfaces Etched into Diamond Eliminates the Need for Thin Film Coatings, Enabling More Than 10 Times Increase in Damage Thresholds for Applications Including EUV Lithography

Due to a combination of superlative thermal, mechanical and optical properties, diamond grown by chemical vapor depositi…

Movement of charge carriers perpendicular to an electric driving field in a solid state system detected for the first time with sub-picosecond time resolution

For this purpose a semiconductor made of GaAs was excited by means of an optical femtosecond laser and a pulsed high-fre…

Physicists discover novel behaviours of materials that could enhance telecommunications technology.

New developments in photonic devices rely on fundamental physics and complex chemistry to extract the maximum efficiency…

Plasmonics Research Published in CNF Cornell’s “The NanoMeter”

The CPIR device conceived by Plasmonics consists of a ground plane, a linear polarizer, and the meander line structures…

The intensity of the laser beam determines which colours are printed on the surface, since the extent of column deformat…

This phenomenon is known as the Purcell Effect in the field. If a light source is located in an optical resonator, spont…

The measurement signal in each layer is similar to that in a computer tomography but the difference is that light is cap…

Scientists from Munich realize a dynamic version of the quantum Hall effect in optical superlattices

Ultracold atoms in optical lattices constitute an almost ideal model system for such experiments since they can be contr…

Engineers have successfully married electrons and photons within a single-chip microprocessor, a landmark development th…

Entanglement between distant quantum objects is an important ingredient for future information technologies. Researchers…

Making it possible in the near future to link metropolises within an 800 km radius in an all-photonic way without quantum repeaters

The all-photonic intercity QKD protocol bridges a large technological gap between intracity QKD links with conventional…

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Newly Developed Liquid Crystal Elastomer Material Could Enable Advanced Sensors, Kent State Researchers Say

The liquid crystal acts as both the distributed cavity host and the active medium. Simple optical pumping of such a samp…

The result shows this novel scheme can fundamentally reduce the requirements of phase reference frame calibrating, and a…

Researchers working at the National Institute of Standards and Technology have developed a novel way to noninvasively me…

New method promises precise delivery of bio samples into X-ray beams for analysis

The funnel consists of a specially shaped light beam that traps particles at its centre. In contrast to conventional opt…

The SLN facility at ICFO collaborates with CRAG to analyze the ripening process of tomatoes.

In order to fully understand the process of ripening in fruit and the behavior of the carotenoid gene expression in resp…

Frequency-agile laser frequency combs take real-time multicolour snapshots of absorbing samples.

Molecules absorb light at well-defined particular colours or optical frequencies. Usually such characteristic frequencie…

Impact to the Realization of Quantum Computers and Other Innovations

The collective behavior of Majorana particles—fermions that are equivalent to their own antiparticles—is different from…

THE CONCEPT OF CHEMICAL POTENTIAL CAN APPLY TO LIGHT

In a paper published in the journal Physical Review B the JQI theorists describe a generic approach to chemical potentia…