Stanford engineers highlight the limitation of a popular technique for one-way optical data transmission on computer chips.

Optics, a form of data transmission that utilizes beams of light, has the promise to outperform the beams of electrons t…

Researchers from Lehigh University, Japan and Canada have advanced a step closer to the dream of all-optical data transm…

Scientists have defined the smallest, most accurate thermometer allowed by the laws of physics — one that could detect t…

Reflection of light off glass surfaces is a problem occurring in everyday life, and hinders the performance of solar pan…

In tuning friction to the point where it disappears, technique could boost development of nanomachines.

The optical lattice was generated using two laser beams traveling in opposite directions, whose fields add up to form a…

Novel self-cleaning, high temperature and corrosion resistant optical windows developed at DTU Nanotech enable the devel…

The world's smallest spirals are nearly impossible to counterfeit

When these spirals are shrunk to sizes smaller than the wavelength of visible light, they develop unusual optical proper…

RELEASE OF ZEGAGE™ PLUS OPTICAL PROFILER ADDS MORE SPEED AND PRECISION TO ZEGAGE PRODUCT LINE

The system provides the same ease of use, vibration robustness and small footprint as the ZeGage profiler but with a hig…

Tabletop setup provides more nuanced picture of heat production in microelectronics.

In their experiments, Chen and his colleagues used microfabrication to vary the size of the aluminum dots, and measured…

DESY team produces innovative high-power X-ray lens

A team led by DESY scientists has designed, fabricated and successfully tested a novel X-ray lens that produces sharper…

A new protocol for estimating unknown optical processes, called unitary operations, with precision enhanced by the uniqu…

The new theory could lead to faster and smaller electronic components, for which quantum tunneling is a significant fact…

The bizarre nature of reality as laid out by quantum theory has survived another test, with scientists performing a famo…

Light can transmit more data while consuming far less power than electricity, and an engineering feat brings optical data transport closer to replacing wires.

Stanford electrical engineer Jelena Vuckovic wants to make computers faster and more efficient by reinventing how they s…

Using ultrashort laser pulses, scientists in Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics have demonstrated the emission of extreme ultraviolet radiation from thin dielectric films and have investigated the underlying mechanisms.

Using ultrashort laser pulses, scientists in Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics have demonstrated the emission of ex…

It is an almost thirty years old scientific problem that has just been resolved

Magnetization dynamics in a checkerboard optical lattice

JQI physicists, led by Trey Porto, are interested in quantum magnetic ordering, which is believed to be intimately relat…

ETH professor Jonathan Home and his colleagues reach deep into their bag of tricks to create so-called

Scientists at the University of York’s Centre for Quantum Technology have made an important step in establishing scalabl…

Researchers at UBC will be able to probe the mysteries of quantum materials with a new state-of-the-art ultrafast laser,…