Applying their newly developed technique to photons entangled in their spatial structure, the group was able to conclude…

By patterning a microwave antenna above the qubits with precision alignment, the qubits were exposed to frequencies of a…

The D-Wave system is capable of programming the individual interactions between spins, whereas prior work with other qua…

The new device will give scientists an unprecedented ability to fine tune even the quickest pulses of light for a host o…

First nanostructured material for broad mixing of light waves

The paper reports how a metamaterial made up of an array of nanocylinders mixed two laser pulses of near infrared light…

At the Optatec trade show in Frankfurt and for the first time ever in Europe, TRIOPTICS pre-sented robot-based automatio…

Folding and cutting thin metal films could enable microchip-based 3-D optical devices.

The technique is straightforward enough that, with the equations the team developed, researchers should now be able to c…

Researchers have demonstrated the first single-photon transistor using a semiconductor chip. The device is able to proce…

The realization of such all-optical single-photon devices will be a large step towards deterministic multi-mode entangle…

To produce a BIC, a sample is needed with two optical channels that scatter incoming laser light. The sample produced at…

Asymmetric plasmonic antennas deliver femtosecond pulses for fast optoelectronics

Holleitner and his colleagues made yet another amazing discovery: Both the electrical and the terahertz pulses were non-…

MOICANA aims to demonstrate breakthrough performance by synergizing the best in class from the two worlds of Photonic In…

Physicists at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics in Garching observe strong interactions between photons of different color in an atom cavity system.

Making use of a single atom in an optical cavity, they observed two regimes in which the fields either block each other…

Using attosecond laser pulses they were able to measure a tiny time difference in the ejection of the electron from a mo…

The glass-like material is transformed ever so briefly into something akin to a metal. And the laser generates a burst o…

The Hong Kong Polytechnic University has developed a novel micro-embossing equipment for manufacturing precision glass l…

Ultra-confined light could detect harmful molecules

The researchers built nano-discs — the smallest about 50 nanometers high and 200 nanometers wide — made of two-dimension…

To change the quantum state of the photons, the researchers made use of techniques which are usually applied for the sha…

How many bits of information can be loaded on a single photon? Will doughnut-shaped pulses of light one day provide nove…

Researchers at QuTech in Delft have succeeded in generating quantum entanglement between two quantum chips faster than t…