Ideally suited for application directly to optics on spot blocks, they are capable of producing surface finishes to 10-5…

Research led by North Carolina State University sheds new light on the ways in which protons and neutrons can bind and e…

They created it on a silicon wafer bearing the official logo of the Canada 150 celebrations using an electron beam litho…

Breaking PT-symmetries for the future of optical technologies

Devices based on light, rather than electrons, could revolutionize the speed and security of our future computers. Howev…

Individual photons of light now can be detected far more efficiently using a device patented (link is external) by a tea…

Observations of atomic interactions could help pave way to room-temperature superconductors.

Physicists at MIT have now cooled a gas of potassium atoms to several nanokelvins — just a hair above absolute zero — an…

Researchers have levitated a tiny nanodiamond particle with a laser in a vacuum chamber, using the technique for the fir…

A technique called plasmonic interferometry helps to detect spatial coherence in ‘incoherent’ light.

The results are the first experimental confirmation of coherence theory at or below the wavelength of light

Researchers have observed quantum effects in electrons by squeezing them into one-dimensional

A targeted way to manipulate beams of protons accelerated using ultrashort and ultraintense laser pulses has been demonstrated by a team of researchers led at the University of Strathclyde.

By using the diffraction of intense laser light as it passes through a

UC Santa Cruz engineers use flexible silicone material to build an integrated optofluidic platform for biological sample processing and optical analysis

The flexibility of PDMS allows for novel ways of controlling both light and fluids on the chip. Using multilayer soft li…

Quantized magneto-optical effect observed in topological insulator

A group of researchers at the University of Tokyo and their collaborators have demonstrated that when a topological insu…

Researchers have found a way to non-invasively measure the intensity profile of light that is confined by disorder in na…

A new ICFO review on controlling Nanoantennas and Molecules at ultrafast timescales graces the August cover of ACS Photonics.

A new ICFO review on controlling Nanoantennas and Molecules at ultrafast timescales graces the August cover of ACS Photo…

When integrated into high-density power modules, the technology will lead to superior performance in terms of power dens…

The automated process is controlled by weaving a STEM instrument’s electron beam through a liquid-filled cell to spur de…

New computational imaging method identifies letters printed on first nine pages of a stack of paper.

MIT researchers and their colleagues are designing an imaging system that can read closed books. In the latest issue of…

3-D ring structures made by high-intensity lasers could aid the design of powerful microscopes and more efficient telecommunication lines

he vortices travel along with the laser pulse at the speed of light and control the energy flow around it. The newly dis…

First use of quantum technology to create a random number generator that is both tiny and fast

For the first time, engineers have developed a fast random number generator based on a quantum mechanical process that c…

A group of theoretical physicists headed by Oriol Romero-Isart from the Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Informa…