Each year Guild Optical Associates attempts to find a good cause in which to donate optical components. The donation of…

Scientists at MPQ develop a new model for realizing the Fractional Quantum Hall Effect in lattice systems

Researchers have developed a new lattice model which gives rise to FQH-like behaviour

MPQ-physicists can detect an optical photon twice.

A team of scientists in the Quantum Dynamics Division of Prof. Gerhard Rempe at the Max-Planck-Institute of Quantum Opti…

Xi-Cheng Zhang, M. Parker Givens Professor of Optics and director of the Institute of Optics at the University of Roches…

Thermal nonlinearities in a nanomechanical oscillator in Nature Physics.

ICFO researchers have optically levitated nanoparticles in high vacuum conditions and measured the highest Q-factor ever…

The method involves shooting a beam of infrared light at the stack, and measuring how the light wave's direction of osci…

Experiments on individual photons, conducted by physicists from the Faculty of Physics at the University of Warsaw (FUW)…

Suggesting that quantum computers might benefit from losing some data, physicists at the National Institute of Standards…

With increased production capacities in the ultra-precision field, asphericon is able to produce customer-specific plast…

LMU/MPQ-physicists succeed in measuring geometric properties of energy bands in light crystals.

Geometrical phases occur in many places in nature. One of the simplest examples is the Foucault pendulum: a tall pendulu…

After more than 40 years of intense research, experimental physicists still seek to explore the rich behaviour of electr…

Researchers at UCF’s College of Optics and Photonics (CREOL) have developed a new way of integrating photonic devices th…

The convenient TO-5 windowless package features a 5-pin header, making it easy to integrate into new or existing systems

Electromagnetic waves (including light) will be scattered when irradiating to objects, the receiving of scattered waves…

Converting heat directly into power with so-called thermoelectric materials could be a major source of renewable energy.…

Filters achieve greater than 90% transmission

TECHSPEC OD 6 Multi-Notch Filters for Nd: YAG Lasers have the advantage of fabrication using hard coated plasma depositi…

Researchers use electromagentic field to hide objects

Invisibility cloaking is no longer the stuff of science fiction: two University of Toronto researchers have demonstrated…

Control of the Magnetic Moment of Single Atoms Is the Key to Compact Data Memories and Quantum Computers

Researchers from KIT have just made a big step towards a single-atom bit: They fixed a single atom on a surface such tha…

With just a single atom, light can be switched between two fibre optic cables at the Vienna University of Technology. Such a switch enables quantum phenomena to be used for information and communication technology.

Fibre optic cables are turned in to a quantum lab: scientists are trying to build optical switches at the smallest possi…

IDRaman reader uses optical focusing method to overcome Raman sampling challenges

The IDRaman reader from Ocean Optics is a fully integrated Raman system with Raster Orbital Scanning (ROS) technology, a…