Researchers have developed a dielectric film that has optical and electrical properties similar to air, but is strong en…

A team of Australian engineers has built a quantum logic gate in silicon for the first time, making calculations between…

Chance effect of lab’s fluorescent lights leads to discovery

A team of scientists from the University of Chicago and the Pennsylvania State University have accidentally discovered a…

Scientists from IBS observe the existence of Chiral Solitons on Indium Atomic Wires

The CALDES team has shown, using dimensional extension by adiabatic phase evolution, that the indium wire can be mapped…

Researchers have made simulations of the processes that happen when a layer of carbon atoms is irradiated with strong l…

Caltech scientist theorizes a new quasiparticle with unique characteristics

Because topolaritons are part matter and part light, they could be guided and controlled with reflectors or with photoni…

This release contains numerous updates and enhancements to the V1 release based on customer feedback. Included are updat…

Researchers at The University of Alabama designed and made a material that manipulates the speed of light in a new, more…

Graphene teams up with two-dimensional crystals for faster data communications

Ultra-fast detection of light lies at the heart of optical communication systems nowadays. Driven by the internet of thi…

Germanium defects in a diamond crystal lattice act as a reliable source for single photons, new research shows. The resu…

JQI physicists observe skipping orbits in the quantum Hall regime

By adjusting the properties of the laser beams, the team produced dynamics characteristic of real materials exhibiting t…

Physicists from Konstanz University succeed in direct detection of vacuum fluctuations

An experimental setup to measure electric fields with extremely high temporal resolution and sensitivity has now made it…

In a paper published in Nature Photonics, the team, which included scientists from the Freie Universität Berlin and the…

Hachkowski joins Northrop Grumman with years of optical systems experience in developing and bringing to market complex…

ICFO and HZDR researchers reveal driving force for orbital order in modern materials

In their experiment, the ICFO and HZDR researchers utilized the unique tunable narrow-band terahertz radiation from the…

Driving toward the practical implementation of the ultimate in secure communications for metropolitan areas

These results were generated using an optical fiber quantum key distribution system that was newly developed by the thre…

A new study suggests the universe was ‘cooked’ just right as it evolved.

The study sheds new light on how to generate, control, and manipulate quantum entanglement, since the defects contain cl…

Using nanometer-scale components, researchers have demonstrated the first optical rectenna, a device that combines the f…

Highly promising for ultra-bright lighting products such as laser headlights

The Optical Single Crystals Group at NIMS, in collaboration with Tamura Corporation and Koha Co., Ltd., successfully dev…

Since the invention of the first lasers in the visible-light region, research has aimed to produce short-wavelength lase…