New approach can dramatically change the extent to which optical devices scatter light.

By immersing glass particles in a fluid, researchers at MIT’s Media Lab and Harvard University are exploring a new mecha…

African researchers demonstrate a 100x increase in the amount of information that can be 'packed into light'.

In this latest work, the team showed data transmission with over 100 patterns of light, exploiting three degrees of free…

The experiment has been published in the prestigious journal ‘Nature'

This breakthrough has come at a key moment for Europe as Brussels is expected shortly to be announcing the investment it…

Connections between superconducting correlations and string order for exploration in ultra-cold gas experiments.

Researchers derive a new many body model describing the physics of two species of neutral ultra-cold fermions loaded ont…

Leiden physicists use a new method to measure so-called surface plasmons. Researching these particles could lead to new…

Swiss researchers improve an interferometry technique by utilizing the interference fringe, an aspect previously viewed as a nuisance

The researchers' experimental setup consisted of an X-ray source, a single phase grating, and a GOTTHARD microstrip dete…

This spin, which can point up, down or anywhere in between, and the ion can absorb and emit photons from a laser, changi…

Australian researchers at the University of Adelaide have developed a method for embedding light-emitting nanoparticles…

DLC coatings are the toughest coatings available today, and used by many of the top

Unique lens has a large field of view and short working distance; could enable very small optical devices

Researchers have created a new optical lens that is flat, rather than curved like traditional glass lenses. The unique o…

Australian quantum researchers have been able to identify the exact location of a single atom in a silicon crystal – an…

Physicists develop new method of crystal production

A natural example of a photonic crystal is the opal, whose fascinating coloration is due to the way the light interacts…

Sound waves with a frequency of 400 GHz are generated and detected with short optical pulses from a laser. The sound is…

MPQ researchers show that a single atomic impurity is able to trap infinitely many bosons around it.

The interaction of spin impurities with bosonic reservoirs lies at the heart of very paradigmatic models in Quantum Opti…

Singapore-built satellite makes and measures light particles pair by pair

The team’s device, dubbed SPEQS, creates and measures pairs of light particles, called photons. Results from space show…

High efficiency ultra-thin planar lens could replace heavy, bulky lenses in smart phones, cameras and telescopes

Researchers from Harvard have demonstrated the first planar lens that works with high efficiency within the visible spec…

Researchers have now developed a mobile MEMS-scanning grating-spectrometer in a sugar-cube format to assist in the exami…

The successful Sandia first step, reported in Applied Physics Letters, makes use of electromagnetic forces provided by a…

Device could monitor pollution from power plants and roads and test for explosives at airports

A research team from Adelphi University, Garden City, New York, USA, has now developed a new device that can detect ultr…

Physicists of the Laboratory for Attosecond Physics at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics and the Ludwig-Maximil…