In a review article in Nature Photonics Ferenc Krausz and Mark Stockman discuss the prospects, recent experimental and theoretical findings open for the future of signal processing

Light is likely to become the tool of choice for controlling electric currents and data processing. After all, its elect…

The way we secure digital transactions could soon change. An international team has demonstrated a form of quantum crypt…

UT and FOM researchers unite theory and real-life observations

Light is produced by the spontaneous emission of photons. An electron in a material that is in an 'excited state' drops…

New dimensions in the surface roughness of aspheres

As part of the development work, asphericon was able to successfully conclude the first client projects with surface rou…

U of Utah Engineers Control Conductivity with Inkjet Printer

A recently discovered technology called plasmonics marries the best aspects of optical and electronic data transfer. By…

A solid state quantum interface linking quantum memories to the telecommunication network in Nature Communications.

Quantum memories providing an interface between flying and stationary quantum bits (qubits) represent an essential build…

MPQ-scientists record broad absorption spectra on a microsecond scale with two laser frequency combs.

A team of scientists now reports on a new method of real-time identification and quantification of molecular species

Researchers at the Niels Bohr Institute have developed a new method where they can avoid noise by means of laser light a…

Engineers are developing an optical “nanocavity” to boost light absorption in semiconductors; it could improve solar cells, cameras and more

Engineers are developing an optical nanocavity to boost light absorption in semiconductors; it could improve solar cells…

Trapping and moving an individual nano-object in 3D in Nature Nanotechnology.

Researchers demonstrates for the first time the ability to use near-field optical tweezers to trap a nano-size object an…

Exciting plasmons: It could impact everything from national defense, information technology, lighting, optics and imaging.

University of Cincinnati researchers are discovering how to manipulate light to one day better view the world’s tiniest…

Physicists propose a modular quantum computer architecture that offers scalability to large numbers of qubits

How do you build a universal quantum computer? Turns out, this question was addressed by theoretical physicists about 15…

The new device provides a highly stable response after exposure to ultraviolet or extreme ultraviolet radiation. It is…

University of Waterloo physicists have succeeded in measuring how the surfaces of glassy materials flow like a liquid, e…

Multiple optical densities available

TECHSPEC UV-NIR Neutral Density Filters exhibit excellent parallelism of less than 5 arcseconds with outstanding surface…

Defects in microscopic diamonds caused by the presence of silicon could provide researchers with a potent basis for deve…

Always nicely in pairs and indistinguishable:

Semi-conductor quantum points are ideally suited to generate interlocked photon pairs due to their properties. In this w…

JILA physicists used an ultrafast laser and help from German theorists to discover a new semiconductor quasiparticle—a h…

The NanoRam FP offers the same benefits of the original NanoRam but with even more versatility provided by a flexible fi…

Physicists from The University of Queensland have performed joint measurements on single light particles with accuracy n…