KTH researchers have taken a significant step toward enabling optical quantum information processing on a chip. A new me…

A Harvard, ICFO, MIT, Raytheon BBN Tech and Pohang Univ. theoretical study shows how graphene can significantly increase the sensitivity of single-photon-detectors.

ICFO researcher have proposed the use of graphene-based Josephson junctions (GJJs) to detect single photons in a wide el…

he scientists were able to empirically establish for the first time that the warming of the storage material by the ener…

The researchers used a table-top laser to get infrared spectra. It is a very compact light source, as opposed to the muc…

A team of Penn State electrical engineers have a way to simultaneously control diverse optical properties of dielectric…

UCSB physics professor’s vision of launching tiny spaceships beyond the solar system lands him in World Book’s ‘Out of this World’ series

Transforming science fiction to reality, physics professor Philip Lubin is creating a laser-cannon system to propel mini…

Researchers take crucial step toward practical quantum encryption over free-space networks

For the first time, researchers have sent a quantum-secured message containing more than one bit of information per phot…

FISBA will be exhibiting FAC Lenses, SAC Lenses and the FISBA Beam Twister™ at the China International Optoelectronic Exposition

SAC lenses are available for both single emitter diode lasers as well as SAC arrays for diode laser bars. Their acircula…

UNSW ramps up commercial efforts to build a 10-qubit forerunner to a silicon-based quantum computer.

It will drive the development and commercialization of a 10-qubit quantum integrated circuit prototype in silicon by 202…

With an all-silicon nanoantenna, researchers demonstrate optical trapping of quantum dots in microfluidic chamber for future biosensing applications

Harnessing the nano-tractor-beam like abilities of optical tweezers, researchers have developed an all-silicon nanoanten…

The MRSI-HVM3 high speed die bonder supports many applications including chip-on-carrier (CoC), chip-on-submount (CoS),…

Due to the rapidly growing processing power of computers, conventional encryption of data is becoming increasingly insec…

Guide Star Alliance led by TOPTICA recognized with Paul F. Forman Team Award

The sodium laser system creates an artificial guide star that serves to measure and remove image blurring due to the ear…

Physicists demonstrate how heating up a quantum system can be used as a universal probe for exotic states of matter.

In practice, the proposed experiment would consist in preparing a topological phase, by loading an ultracold gas into an…

Current encryption techniques rely on complex mathematical algorithms to code information that is decipherable only to t…

The recent review by members of ITMO’s International Research Center for Nanophotonics and Metamaterials and their forei…

Working in a uniquely stable manufacturing environment, Optical Surfaces skilled staff was able to produce the silver co…

Proof on ultra-smooth atomically flat gold films

Recently, scientists of the University of Stuttgart in collaboration with research groups of the University of Duisburg-…

Light switches from spray cans

Each of these droplets forms a microlens when it dries. A whole field of these microlenses can influence beams of light…

Researchers use long-wavelength low energy femtosecond laser pulses to study relativistic self-collapse in plasma, leading to relativistic electron beams

The team found that electron beams were present for powers such that the characteristic self-focusing length in plasma w…