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…

An international team of researchers is able to reveal the dynamics of atomic spins using ultra-fast X-ray lasers.

An international team of researchers has been able to synchronize infrared and x-ray laser pulses and use them to simult…

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…