Multi-element aspheric lens assemblies are now ubiquitous in consumer electronics devices such as mobile phones, tablets…

Researchers have showed theoretically that by tweaking a few parameters of the binding process, photons could travel sid…

Physicists from the Department of Nanophotonics and Metamaterials of ITMO University have experimentally demonstrated th…

With the help of a semiconductor quantum dot, physicists at the University of Basel have developed a new type of light s…

Calculation with electron spins in a quantum computer assumes that the spin states last for a sufficient period of time.…

Their results potentially offer a simple way to improve the efficiency of electronic devices such as light-emitting diod…

Self-assembling nanoparticles take their cues from their surroundings

By using light – a favored means of generating nanoparticle self-assembly – to control the reaction, one can precisely g…

A team of scientists have measured a bizarre effect in quantum physics, in which individual particles of light are said…

Caltech engineers have created flat devices capable of manipulating light in ways that are very difficult or impossible…

An astrophysics research group experimentally confirms its theories about the manipulation of asteroids and photon propulsion

To simulate a laser’s ability to deflect an asteroid, Travis Brashears led a group of students in tests that simulate sp…

ONFs are like the normal optical fibers that form the global telecommunications network, except that they are much thinn…

For the first time, a team of Caltech researchers and collaborators has found a way to observe—and control—this quantum…

To date, these metastable structures had only be predicted theoretically, but had not yet been observed. These structure…

Magnetic dipole transitions in matter, eg. complex molecules, are known to be orders of magnitude weaker than their elec…

NICT, NIMS, Institut NEEL, CNRS and Université Grenoble Alpes demonstrate experimentally that single photons can be used to make decisions in uncertain, dynamically changing environments.

Decision making in uncertain, dynamically changing environments is fundamentally difficult since the exploration for the…

Digital information technology has great impact on our lives that has strongly motivated scientists to look for faster a…

Physicists build stable diffraction structure in atomically thin graphene

Quantum physics tell us that even massive particles can behave like waves, as if they could be in several places at once…

A new method to certify all kinds of multipartite entanglement in a quantum network where some of the measurement devices are untrusted.

The most common and standard techniques used to detect entanglement in a system rely either on having knowledge of the q…

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The new phase-shifting metrology instrument performs advanced characterization of precision optical surfaces

Measuring the phase of light is the basis of many measurement devices which measure for instance the length of an object…