Using nanometer-scale components, researchers have demonstrated the first optical rectenna, a device that combines the f…

Highly promising for ultra-bright lighting products such as laser headlights

The Optical Single Crystals Group at NIMS, in collaboration with Tamura Corporation and Koha Co., Ltd., successfully dev…

Since the invention of the first lasers in the visible-light region, research has aimed to produce short-wavelength lase…

ICFO research fellow A.Celi and ICFO Professor L.Tarruell comment in Science on the experimental visualization of edge currents using cold atoms trapped in synthetic lattices.

Researchers proposed an original scheme for simulating efficiently this physics using instead cold atoms trapped in an o…

UMass Amherst physicists offer new open source calculations for molecular interactions

UMass Amherst physicists offer new open source calculations for molecular interactions

Although there is never more than one neutron in the interferometer at any given time, the neutron can be thought of as…

The team has shown that intense pulses of light sent through the waveguide can carefully change the state of the GST. An…

Researchers at Swinburne University of Technology, collaborating with Monash University, have developed an ultrathin, fl…

The experiment confirmed that quantum communication is feasible over long distances in fiber. Other research groups have…

Invention of the first integrated circularly polarized light detector on a silicon chip opens the door for development o…

Achievable Even by Silicone Alone; Developments of New Functions through Integration with Semiconductor Electronics

NIMS MANA researchers elucidated a new principle whereby electromagnetic waves including light propagate on the surface…

TECHSPEC® Best Form Aspheric Lenses offer optimized performance at designated wavelengths

This transformation is completed without modifying the surface characteristics of the lens, including surface accuracy a…

New system is the first to create strong, solid glass structures from computerized designs.

A team of MIT researchers has opened up a new frontier in 3-D printing: the ability to print optically transparent glass…

Berkeley Lab Researchers Create Ultrathin Invisibility Cloak

In the Berkeley study, when red light struck an arbitrarily shaped 3D sample object measuring approximately 1,300 square…

New scheme based on the “wave function collapse” verified experimentally

This experiment enabled the researchers to realize QKD that does not require error rate monitoring between the sender an…

Aside from interest in them for studying fundamental physics, these zero modes might play an important role in quantum c…

Single atoms or molecules imprisoned by laser light in a doughnut-shaped metal cage could unlock the key to advanced sto…

A team of researchers from the University of St Andrews and the University of York has slowed down the speed of light in…

New hypothesis models Dirac’s light-speed electron as a helically- circulating charged photon generating the de Broglie wavelength

In 1933 Paul A. Dirac claimed in his Nobel Prize lecture that electrons actually move at light speed, but because of the…

Researchers have imaged how light moves inside an exotic class of matter known as hyperbolic materials. They observed, f…