Device developed at UCLA Engineering could be used for improved timing, attosecond physics and measuring universal constants

The laser clock could help generate ever-shorter pulses of light, which would be useful for watching the motion of elect…

Highly directional single photon source concept is expected to lead to a significant progress in producing compact, chea…

Researchers from the Department of Applied Mathematics and the Institute for Quantum Computing at the University of Wate…

This affordable tool enables design engineers working within their CAD environment to apply and save optical properties,…

Quantum computers are based on qubits that, unlike classical bits, can not only take the values 0 or 1 but can also be 0…

Users can run experiments on an IBM quantum processor

The cloud-enabled quantum computing platform, called IBM Quantum Experience, will allow users to run algorithms and expe…

Predictions from quantum physics have been confirmed by countless experiments, but no one has yet detected the quantum p…

A single molecule allows a beam of light with a few photons to be controlled - a step towards the photonic computer

A team at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light has demonstrated for the first time a mediation process with…

Discovery offers a ‘game-changer’ for photonics applications

Work by an internationally acclaimed Rochester professor may offer an alternative to the way in which researchers have a…

The Northrop Grumman Institute of Nanophotonics and Nanomaterials will explore the properties of tiny structures and materials

The creation of the institute is based on the shared recognition that technological innovation begins with fundamental s…

The new lens could be used for biomedical research and security imaging

Researchers have used metamaterials and 3-D printing to develop a novel lens that works with terahertz frequencies. Not…

A group of scientists from ITMO University in Saint Petersburg has put forward a new approach to effective manipulation…

An important step toward photonic computation that solves intractable mathematical problems

The team successfully generated more than 10,000 time-multiplexed OPOs using four-wave mixing in a highly nonlinear fibe…

New research results from the Niels Bohr Institute show that light sources can be made much faster by using a principle…

Discovery is a significant step toward multi-channel quantum communication and higher capacity quantum computers

Other research groups have generated time-bin entangled photons, but Kues and his colleagues are the first to create pho…

Physicist Dirk Bouwmeester discovers a promising route for combined optical and solid state-based quantum information processing

New research from UC Santa Barbara scientists and their Dutch colleagues exploits a system that has the potential to tra…

Coinciding with the opening of a new quantum computing laboratory at UNSW by Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, UNSW resea…

More energy in stead of less

Light propagating in a layer of scattering nanoparticles, shows the principles of diffusion - like tea particles in hot…

How weird can quantum effects be and can we put such weirdness to good use? A team led by experts at The University of N…

NIST researchers have devised a way to synchronize the time of two different clocks – separated by as much as 4 km of op…