3D printing and laser annealing of conductive metallic inks without supports could lead to customized electronic and biomedical devices

This laser-assisted direct ink writing method allows microscopic metallic, free-standing 3D structures to be printed in…

One of the measurable characteristics of a beam of light is known as angular momentum. Until now, it was thought that in…

The experiment, developed by physicists from ANU and UNSW ADFA, created an extremely cold gas trapped in a laser beam, k…

ICFO researchers have demonstrated attosecond temporal resolution in combination with atomic selectivity.

Attosecond light pulses in the extreme ultraviolet have drawn a great deal of attention due to their ability to interrog…

MPQ scientists take an important step towards a logical quantum gate for photons.

In a series of measurements, using wave plates and a polarizing beam splitter the scientists determined the polarization…

Xu and Wu discovered that when the graphene layer’s lattice is aligned with the layers of boron-nitride, a type of “supe…

Recently, engineers placed a single layer of MoS molecules on top of a photonic structure called an optical nanocavity m…

Nanotechnology improves holographic capabilities by encoding light polarization

Researchers at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences have programmed polarization into…

The researchers probed the mechanism at work by altering the polarization of the laser field. A linearly polarised field…

Mark Sherwin and an international team prove that basic collider concepts from particle physics can be transferred to solid-state research

This new research employed a unique laser source at the terahertz high-field lab in Regensburg, Germany, which enabled t…

Using ultrashort laser pulses an international team at LMU Munich and the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics has man…

All functions—printing, navigation and powering the probes, as well as collecting particles and delivering substances—ar…

Inside a drop of paint, light is scattered so often that it seems impossible to demonstrate quantum effects. But despite…

Method overcomes fundamental challenge in fiber-optic based sensing, with potential applications in industrial production and chemical detection

Researchers have developed a promising new fiber-optic based chemical sensing method that uses light inside a fiber to i…

Berkeley Lab, UC Berkeley researchers lead study that uses trapped atoms in an artificial crystal of light

Such a light-based structure, which has patterned features that in some ways resemble those of a crystal, is essentially…

Quantum computers hold great potential, but they remain hard to build because their basic components—individual quantum…

Increased emphasis on collaboration with start-ups – CODE_n cluste¬r “Photonics 4.0” pivotal to the further progress of optical technologies – Applications for start-up contest open until the end of May 2016

Photonics 4.0 focuses on innovations that enable the advancement of Industry 4.0 using optical technologies. With its Tr…

With an update rate of up to 60 Hz, 5.5 μm pixels, 2048 x 2048 active area, a global shutter with an optical

Scientists and engineers from the Universities of Bristol and Western Australia have developed how to efficiently simula…

Photonics researchers create first nanoscale ‘optical parametric amplifier’

Rice University photonics researchers have unveiled a new nanoparticle amplifier that can generate infrared light and bo…