Researchers of the FOM Institute AMOLF and the California Institute of Technology have discovered a new method to genera…

Most optical coatings are used to enhance reflection or transmission properties of a substrate material within an optica…

The new instrument, called a fixed-length optical cavity, works by detecting subtle changes in the wavelength of light p…

The next generation ultra-fast Internet or ground-breaking electronic circuits powered by light instead of electricity c…

The AOT-100 Aerosol Optical Tweezers, which is capable of holding and manipulating single or multiple particles for inde…

A spin Hall effect without all the fuss

Atom-optical lattice systems offer a clean, well-controlled way to study the manipulation and movement of spins because…

Recently, many different systems have been proposed for the physical implementation of a quantum bit. Very promising pro…

When studying extremely fast reactions in ultrathin materials, two measurements are better than one. A new research tool…

Radiant Zemax Announces the Sale of its Zemax Optical Design Software Business Unit to Arlington Capital Partners. Mark Nicholson named Zemax CEO.

The Radiant side of the business will continue to operate as Radiant Zemax in the near term, focused on its solutions po…

Electrons are elementary particles — indivisible, unbreakable. But new research suggests the electron's quantum state —…

When and why it wins over lattice heating

For optoelectronic applications of a material, a thorough understanding of the processes that govern energy relaxation o…

With a combination of solid-state physics and quantum optics, ETH researchers observe new multiparticle states that so f…

Shorter Dead Times with COUNT® Modules

LASER COMPONENTS has reduced the dead time of the COUNT photon counters down to 42 ns

Yale engineers have developed a chip-scale device that uses the wave-particle duality of single photons to sense the pre…

High contrast over large angles of incidence

Wire Grid Polarizing Cube Beamsplitters are constructed using a wire grid polarizer cemented between two precision high…

The new method could improve the sensitivity, precision and ease of tests and calibrations of antennas, sensors, and bio…

Operating in the fuzzy area between classical and quantum light

In a new experiment, researchers perform an experiment using incoherent light, where the light is a jumble of waves. An…

This new class of thin metal materials, known as transition metal di-chalcogenides, has become an exciting complimentary…

Yale engineers have developed a hybrid system that strongly couples magnons—the smallest unit of measurement for a magne…

Gold nanoparticle SERS substrates amplify Raman effects

Using precisely controlled gold nanoparticles, Ocean Optics SERS substrates amplify very weak Raman signals by many orde…