The sensing device that Zhang and his colleagues chose to demonstrate their new idea incorporates two layers of relative…

This technique allows for synchronising multiple quantum nodes with great precision, for since the information is locate…

KIT Researchers Are the First to Develop a Method to Print Mirrors of Variable Size with a Reflectivity of More than 99 Percent

Bragg mirrors are produced by applying several thin layers of materials onto a carrier. The resulting optical mirror spe…

New research from CU Boulder and NIST may be a leap forward for handling qubits with a light touch. In the study, a team…

In this process, the laser beam is focused through a transparent component onto the rear side and moved over the surface…

Researchers create a device to streamline interactions between ultra-cold and room-temperature computers

Pintus and his collaborators built a device that translates electrical input into pulses of light. An electric current c…

Backed by leading Silicon Valley investors including the founders of Accel, J2 Ventures, and Housatonic, Aalyria launches today as an independent company with a mission to orchestrate and manage hyper-fast, ultra-secure, and highly complex communications networks that span land, sea, air, and space.

Tightbeam is the world's most advanced coherent light free space optics technology. At 100-1000x faster than anything el…

A new photonic chip developed at Caltech may represent an important breakthrough for the field, especially for enabling…

Cognifiber’s photonics breakthrough brings closer the reality of AI deployments. “Our current results are outstanding, demonstrating capabilities to support future scalability and sustainability of data centers and edge computing,” said Dr. Eyal Cohen, Co-founder & CEO of CogniFiber.

CogniFiber developed a full solution based on proprietary fiber-based technology together with standard optical communic…

This achievement sprouting from a collaboration with the University of Texas at Austin lays the foundation for an emerge…

IR laser cleave technology enables nanometer-precision layer transfer through silicon, eliminating glass substrates for advanced packaging and enabling thin-layer 3D stacking

EVG’s new NanoCleave technology utilizes an IR laser and inorganic release materials to enable laser debonding on silico…

Application of Non-Bravais lattices to light control technology

By breaking the symmetry of the periodic square lattice of silicon nanodisks, the team has demonstrated experimentally a…

With new interface improvements, the Compass 2 now delivers 3x better form deviation performance than the original Compa…

Glass nanoparticles show unexpected coupling when levitated with laser light

It came as quite a surprise to the researchers in Vienna when they saw a completely different behavior than was expected…

Technology Advances Primed to Usher in a New Era for Active Archiving and Ultimately Establish a New Normal for All Archival Data

Leveraging patented advancements in materials science, Folio Photonics has developed the first economically viable, ente…

Physicists at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics have managed to entangle more than a dozen photons efficiently and in a defined way. They are thus creating a basis for a new type of quantum computer.

Following a novel technique, the researchers generated up to 14 entangled photons in an optical resonator, which can be…

At TU Wien (Vienna) and The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, a "light trap" was developed in which a beam of light prevents itself from escaping. This allows light to be absorbed perfectly.

Research teams from TU Wien and from The Hebrew University of Jerusalem have found a surprising trick that allows a beam…

In a new study, recently published in the journal Science, scientists demonstrate a novel method for generating cavity-p…

Nanopillar-studded surfaces interact with light to provide a new way to trap, image and manipulate single atoms.

In the new design, instead of typical lenses, the NIST team used unconventional optics — a square glass wafer about 4 mi…

Such a switch could eventually enable data processing using photons. The research was published in the