Acquisition by giant photonics firm facilitates continued university-industry partnership

This past May the intellectual property developed by Crawford and his team was acquired by Thorlabs, one of the leading…

Technique can help advance quantum computing and secure communication technologies

Rochester Institute of Technology researchers have helped develop a new technique for quantifying entanglement that has…

Silicon Carbide has not been widely used as the material for subminiature optical devices despite its excellent physical…

With this, the international research team has also made an important step towards practical applications such as a futu…

The phenomenon of entanglement forms the basis of a quantum internet. When two fundamental particles are entangled, they…

Using ATAS, the researchers found an ultrafast modification of optical absorption in transition metals under an intense…

The study published in Nature Communications is able to characterize high-order nonlinear susceptibilities in a crystal with the use of HHG, instrumental in signal manipulation for optoelectronics.

In their study, the team of researchers used sapphire crystal wafers for the experiment since this material acts as both…

The work is a proof of concept for scaling down optical devices to sizes that are orders of magnitude smaller than today…

Researchers demonstrate a semiconductor device for the tailored generation of Brillouin signals in the ultrahigh 100GHz-THz regime.

In their study, the researchers devise a novel optical technique to detect and optimize the generated Brillouin spectra…

These results provide a new approach to design quantum repeaters with efficient single-photon sources and photonic graph…

These unique photons can travel with different wavefronts. They also have a vortex where the wavefront twists and polari…

Quantum light sources pave the way for optical circuits

An international team has succeeded in placing light sources in atomically thin material layers with an accuracy of just…

An optical lattice of laser beams into which individual atoms are placed can be used as a chessboard

A research team lead by Osaka University demonstrated how information encoded in the circular polarization of a laser be…

An international team of researchers demonstrates the existence of narrow plasmons in the near-infrared regime by using atomically-thin silver films of crystalline quality.

In recent years, plasmonics has made its way through to become a key component in the field of optical devices essential…

New research on Weyl semimetals, a class of quantum materials, unlocks unique quantum properties that can be used to create light-controlled electronic devices in the future.

The scientists also found that the current’s direction could be controlled by changing the light beam’s structure, such…

MIT, Singapore researchers show high-quality photonic device based on amorphous silicon carbide.

The resonator shows promise to be used as an on-chip photonic light source at the infrared telecom wavelength of 1,550 n…

It has been said that the internet exists chiefly to show videos of cats interacting with boxes.

Creating these hypercube states – in this case using single particles of light and a tiny mechanical drum – is an import…

Qubits are the elementary building blocks of a future, super-efficient quantum computer. Their role can be compared to t…

Researchers at the Joint Quantum Institute have created the first silicon chip that can reliably constrain light to its…