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Custom-Built to Ready-Made

Researchers lead project that revolutionizes photonic systems

The group managed to simplify and condense a complex optical system onto a single silicon photonic chip. The achievement…

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Smallest cavity for light realized by graphene plasmons

In a recent study published in Science, ICFO researchers have succeeded to build a new type of cavity for graphene plasm…

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New superlens has potential to circumvent classical optics laws

A team of Russian and Danish physicists has created a focusing component, or nanolens, capable of converting light into…

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Researchers demonstrate teleportation of data

The new quantum chips will thus be a valuable step on the road to an alternative internet where information is transferr…

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Nanoscale Nonlinear Spectroscopy on the cover of ACS Photonics

A team of ICFO and University of Göttingen researchers theoretically demonstrates that ultrafast electron microscopy could radically improve nanoscale nonlinear spectrocospy.

This technique has enabled the extraction of spectral information on plasmons in metallic nanostructures, excitons in se…

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Physicists create quantum-inspired optical sensor

The experiment showed that despite the large number of optical elements in the scheme, it is nevertheless tunable and co…

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One-of-a-kind Microscope Enables Breakthrough in Quantum Science

This breakthrough is likely to have an impact on numerous potential applications, including the design of new quantum ma…

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New optical technique provides more efficient probe of nanomagnet dynamics

Data storage devices and other emerging technologies use magnetic elements smaller than 100 nanometers, but studying their magnetization dynamics can be a challenge

The traditional optical technique Schmidt’s lab has employed to study these materials uses a short laser pulse to knock…

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Geometry of intricately fabricated glass makes light trap itself

To perform their experiments, the researchers shine a laser through a piece of glass that has a series of extremely prec…

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Australian researchers record world’s fastest internet speed from a single optical chip

They used a new device that replaces 80 lasers with one single piece of equipment known as a micro-comb, which is smalle…

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Quantum leap: Bristol’s photon discovery is a major step toward large-scale quantum technologies

Now researchers have devised how to build near-perfect photon sources, over the next few months the scalability of the S…

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New Israeli electro optical device can detect Coronavirus in one minute

Prof. Gabby Sarusi Develops One Minute Coronavirus Test

Because the test is electro-optical in nature, rather than biochemical, it is not sensitive to environmental factors tha…

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Unique polymer-based fabrication process for low-cost, higher yield reprogrammable photonic integrated circuits

TU/e researchers from Electrical Engineering and Chemical Engineering & Chemistry combine their expertise in an innovative manner.

This is an entirely new direction for making reconfigurable photonics and paves the way for the low-cost mass production…

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Researcher presents a reinterpretation of quantum (non-classical) light

Professor Byoung Seung Ham proved theoretically that the anti-correlation of light is not a phenomenon that occurs only…

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Olive oil sheds new light on universality in phase transitions

By varying the distance between the two mirrors and measuring the transmission of light through the cavity, they discove…

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Laser loop couples quantum systems over a distance

In their experiment, the researchers used laser light to couple the vibrations of a 100 nanometer thin membrane to the m…

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Long-lived pionic helium

Exotic matter experimentally verified for the first time

This success opens up completely new ways to investigate pions with the methods of quantum optics

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A new generation of OPOs

ICFO researchers develop a new generation of optical parametric oscillators (OPOs) that can provide tunable soliton pulses with sub-100 fs duration in the near-infrared.

In their experiment, the team of researchers realised a viable and stable femtosecond OPO source in a highly compact, pr…

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3DOptix Releases Open, Cloud-based Optical Design and Simulation Software

The optical design and simulation platform was developed from a deep need to reduce the multiple trial and error iterati…

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A spotlight of innovation

Even during the coronavirus crisis, Professor Erez Hasman’s research group at Technion is emitting a ray of innovation. The researchers have invented a groundbreaking technology that combines nano-optics and magnetics for identifying nanometric non-uniformity in electronic and photonic chips

The solution devised by Prof. Hasman’s research group is based on intensive scientific research in fields that combine t…

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