Findings could lead to more precise information transfer in computer chips and other applications

A breakthrough by a team of researchers from UCLA, Columbia University and other institutions could lead to the more pre…

Researchers experimentally produce these structures from light polarization

To create the structured beam and measure its polarization, the researchers used a series of optical tools. The laser li…

With materials, coatings, and experience covering the UV through Long Wave IR regime, only II-VI Optical Systems can cov…

Findings bolster theory that quantum fluctuations drive strange electronic phenomena

The experiments tested, for the first time, a prediction from a theory about the origins of quantum

Researchers have developed the first microscopic component that is small enough to fit onto a standard silicon chip. The…

French competitiveness cluster targets US interest in advanced photonics technologies from Bordeaux

Based in Bordeaux, France, the Route des Lasers competitiveness cluster has become one of Europe’s highest concentration…

NIST has partnered with the private sector to develop the next-generation open-source control software for quantum infor…

In a new paper published in Science Express today, researchers describe how they have managed to slow photons in free sp…

Plasmonic Focusing enables High-Sensitivity Quantum Dot Photodetectors

High-sensitivity photodetection is at the heart of many optoelectronic applications, including spectroscopy, imaging, su…

NICT paves the way for preparation of next-generation high-quality single-photon source

This research will accelerate the practical use of quantum communication systems which are constructed by commercially a…

Threatened with extinction by biros and computers, the nib pen could be set to make an unexpected comeback in the field…

An interdisciplinary team of mathematicians and physicists has developed a new quantitative approach to understanding th…

The spectrometer can be used to study gas-shaped, liquid and solid materials by analyzing light in the near infrared ran…

Physicists at the University of Sussex have tamed one of the most counterintuitive phenomena of modern science in their…

Scientists extract the topological number of an artificial solid subjected to extreme effective magnetic fields

Topology, a branch of mathematics classifying geometric objects, has been exploited by physicists to predict and describ…

Physicist at the University of Bonn observe light-matter interaction with two atoms for the first time

A City College of New York led-team has successfully demonstrated how to both enhance light emission and capture light f…

An international team, including researchers from Swinburne University of Technology, has demonstrated that the 1935 Ein…

Researchers at the Paul Scherrer Institute have succeeded in switching tiny, magnetic structures using laser light and t…

A quantum network requires efficient interfaces over which information can be transferred from matter to light and back.…