Controlling the properties of ultrafast light pulses is essential for sending information through high-speed optical cir…

One of the greatest challenges for researchers worldwide is to develop qubits that are stable enough to allow a computer…

Researchers transmit data via a semiconductor laser, opening the door to ultra-high-speed Wi-Fi

The research opens the door to new types of hybrid electronic-photonic devices and is the first step toward ultra-high-s…

The team created such a quantum memory by trapping billions of rubidium atoms into a hair-like tiny space – those atoms…

The physicists found that it is possible to achieve superinjection with just one material. What is more, most of the kno…

The internet is powered by lasers. Every email, cell phone call and website visit is encoded into data and sent around t…

The researchers invented a new family of zinc germanosilicate glass that has a high refractive index comparable to that…

Researchers at KTH have taken aim at the key component of lidar, optical beam-stearing, and developed a device that is s…

Understanding the dynamics of massive mesoscopic objects levitated in high vacuum is among the most exciting recent area…

Lone atoms are a potential building block for harnessing quantum physics. If researchers can capture and control these t…

In a paper in Nature Photonics, they describe trapping nanoparticle-sized silica beads with an optical tweezer in a vacu…

A new ultra-efficient laser paves the way for new applications using miniature atomic clocks.

The international team has discovered an exceptionally efficient and robust microcomb based on a unique wave type called…

Achievement can be applied to speed up quantum computers and design new quantum technological devices

The key to the new observation was that dissipation, and hence the energy shift, can be turned on and off. Control of su…

In order to generate 775-nm-wavelength light with a 1550-nm-wavelength pump, the researchers designed a semi-nonlinear w…

This strong-field phenomenon converts many low-energy photons from an intense laser pulse into a photon of much higher e…

In a first, experiments conducted by the Griffith research team using ultra short pulses of light and atomic hydrogen in…

Researchers in NICT and LNE-SYRTE operated their strontium optical lattice clocks independently from December 2 to 12 an…

Using numerical simulations, the researchers found that this unconventional type of conductivity, which is believed to t…

he device has demonstrated an efficient on-chip shaping of photons enabled by nanomechanics driven at microwave frequenc…

Optical processing comes at a pivotal time of change in computing. Demand for AI is exploding just as silicon-based proc…