First proof of single attosecond pulse generation at the carbon K-edge.

Until now and after a decade of continuous research and development, attoscience has culminated in the generation of iso…

ICFO researchers detect particle entanglement in a beam of squeezed light

In a recent study published in Physical Review Letters and highlighted by the magazine Science News, the research group…

A breakthrough in the control of a type of particle known as the polariton has created a highly specialised form of rotation.

This opens the door to all kinds of other superfluid light effects, which could have applications in optical communicati…

Result could make atomic clocks more accurate.

Physicists from MIT and the University of Belgrade have developed a new technique that can successfully entangle 3,000 a…

Surface plasmons are waves of electrons that are generated under particular conditions by directing light onto a nanostr…

The Optical NanoGauge C13027 also provides double the measurement speed of previous systems

A new technology, which creates a rainbow of optical colors with ultra-thin layers of silicon, has been recently demonst…

Researchers at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University have demonstrated a more robust metho…

Researchers demonstrate how to encode 2.05 bits per photon, doubling existing systems that use light polarization

Quantum cryptography promises more secure communications. The first step in such systems is quantum key distribution, to…

They built a photonic circuit that could switch between the two scenarios proposed by the theorists, allowing them to va…

Heidelberg physicists build fundamental building block of a many-body system from only two atoms

Understanding the motion of multiple, interacting bodies is one of the central research questions in physics. While it i…

Progress in developing nanophotonic devices capable of withstanding high temperatures and harsh conditions for applicati…

What happens when a quantum dot looks in a mirror?

The 2014 chemistry Nobel Prize recognized important microscopy research that enabled greatly improved spatial resolution…

In close collaboration with the University of Central Florida, Rumpf’s EM Lab recently devised and demonstrated a comple…

Tel Aviv University researcher discovers novel nanoscale “metamaterial” could serve as future ultra high-speed computing units

A new study published in Nature Photonics by Tel Aviv University researchers finds that new optical materials could serv…

Very small objects like photons and electrons are known for their odd behavior. Thanks to the laws of quantum mechanics,…

Researchers from the University of Cambridge have designed a new type of pixel element and demonstrated its unique switc…

Researchers at IBM attach silicon photonic chips directly onto a processor package promising a faster, cheaper and lower energy future for computing systems, including cloud data centers

Scientists at IBM Research have now demonstrated what may be an important step toward commercializing this next generati…

These new BPF wafers have been designed to optimize detection of narrow spectral emission lines. These filters are depos…

Multiphoton Optics celebrates the Year of the Light by launching its first customized, stand-alone 3D Lithography Equipm…