Silicon-based system offers smaller, cheaper alternative to other “broadband” filters; could improve a variety of photonic devices.

MIT researchers have designed an optical filter on a chip that can process optical signals from across an extremely wide…

The research targets an important step for practical quantum computing: How can you convert microwave signals, such as t…

The new perspective involves a mathematical tool—a standard measure of computational difficulty known as sampling comple…

New findings from Aalto University have the potential to change how electronics process logic functions, the elementary building blocks of computing.

In their paper now published in Science Advances, an interdisciplinary team of researchers at Aalto University show how…

Diamonds are prized for their purity, but their flaws might hold the key to a new type of highly secure communications.

In a crystal, such as a diamond, qubits could theoretically be transferred from photons to electrons, which are easier t…

To make qubits for quantum computers less susceptible to noise, the spin of an electron or some other particle is prefer…

The research, published in Nature, creates an alternative platform for advancing quantum physics applications

Using a principle called wave-particle duality, the team constructed artificial emitters that spontaneously decay by emi…

The physicists are now in the process of building ytterbium-based quantum memories that can be used to quickly make tran…

The device emits light by a quantum mechanical phenomenon known as inelastic electron tunneling. In this process, electr…

In a new publication in Physical Review Letters, researchers from Delft University of Technology introduce a novel state…

The novel device constitutes an optic isolator – it transmits light approaching from the left and turns off light coming…

The demonstrated hybrid FinFET-Silicon Photonics platform integrates high-performance 14nm FinFET CMOS circuits with ime…

Applying their newly developed technique to photons entangled in their spatial structure, the group was able to conclude…

By patterning a microwave antenna above the qubits with precision alignment, the qubits were exposed to frequencies of a…

The D-Wave system is capable of programming the individual interactions between spins, whereas prior work with other qua…

The new device will give scientists an unprecedented ability to fine tune even the quickest pulses of light for a host o…

First nanostructured material for broad mixing of light waves

The paper reports how a metamaterial made up of an array of nanocylinders mixed two laser pulses of near infrared light…

At the Optatec trade show in Frankfurt and for the first time ever in Europe, TRIOPTICS pre-sented robot-based automatio…

Folding and cutting thin metal films could enable microchip-based 3-D optical devices.

The technique is straightforward enough that, with the equations the team developed, researchers should now be able to c…

Researchers have demonstrated the first single-photon transistor using a semiconductor chip. The device is able to proce…