Rice, Osaka scientists use terahertz waves to spot contaminants

Graphene may be tough, but those who handle it had better be tender. The environment surrounding the atom-thick carbon m…

Three initial sets are available for Pinkel and full multiband configurations using popular LED light sources. Designed…

MarSurf WM 100 offers white light interferometry; the MarSurf CWM 100 both white light and confocal microscopy

The MarSurf WM 100 uses a white light interferometer, and the MarSurf CWM 100 includes both white light and confocal mic…

UK business set to revolutionise supercomputing with prototype optical processor

UK based start up Optalysys has revealed that it is only months away from launching a prototype optical processor with t…

Researchers have discovered new optical functionality of the helical spin structure, which differentiates the optical ab…

Researchers have developed a method of teleporting objects that are large enough to be visible to the naked eye. Telepor…

A new kind of quantum computer is being proposed by scientists from the TU Wien (Vienna) and Japan (National Institute of Informatics and NTT Basic Research Labs).

A team of researchers has now proposed a new architecture for quantum computing, based on microscopic defects in diamond…

A high range high resolution system for contour and surface finish measurement

The Form Talysurf i-Series is a high accuracy instrument range capable of simultaneous surface finish and contour measur…

In the experiments, researchers coaxed two beryllium ions located in separate zones of an electric-field trap into an en…

Feature Durable Design for Demanding IR Applications

These lenses feature a durable design that is ideal for use in a wide variety of demanding infrared (IR) applications, i…

Researchers describe new technology to fabricate high-performance, flexible optical devices

A team of researchers at the University of Delaware has developed a way to fabricate high-performance flexible optical d…

Two-by-two-millimeter spectrometer dramatically shrinks footprint for multidimensional analysis of molecules

Two-by-two-millimeter spectrometer dramatically shrinks footprint for multidimensional analysis of molecules

Highly purified crystals that split light with uncanny precision are key parts of high-powered lenses, specialized optic…

Finding could allow ultrafast switching of conduction, and possibly lead to new broadband light sensors.

Graphene, an ultrathin form of carbon with exceptional electrical, optical, and mechanical properties, has become a focu…

Single molecule nanoimaging with angstrom localization precision using hybrid photonic antennas.

Photonic antennas amplify and confine optical fields at the nanoscale offering excellent perspectives for nanoimaging an…

First measurements of transmission and delay

Topological transport of light is the photonic analog of topological electron flow in certain semiconductors. In the el…

Devices that employ light for computation, could speed up computers in the future and increase their efficiency. Researc…

The speed of information in a spin network

In quantum mechanics, interactions between particles can give rise to entanglement, which is a strange type of connectio…

Physicists are one step closer to proving the reliability of a quantum computer – a machine which promises to revolution…

Experiment measures millions of quantum trajectories to predict ‘most likely’ route

As a quantum state collapses from a quantum superposition to a classical state or a different superposition, it will fol…