AMOLF develops a magnet-free optical circulator

Circulators allow to transmit information without loss among more than two nodes in a network, which is why they are alr…

Advancement could streamline and boost scientific research all over the world, help computing industry

To make use of the new coating, a laser is needed. Zhao says a common helium-neon laser, which can be seamlessly integra…

A team of researchers in Germany and at the University of Michigan have demonstrated how infrared laser pulses can shift…

Lenses and mirrors with freeform surfaces enable designers to focus light within optical devices that are lighter, more…

By placing the most magnetic element of the periodic table into a quantum version of a popular desktop toy, Stanford scientists explore the emergence of quantum chaos and thermal equilibrium.

Lev and his group built their own quantum version of Newton’s cradle in order to answer questions about how the chaotic…

Metal-free metamaterial can be swiftly tuned to create changing electromagnetic effects

For this study, the cylinders were sized to interact with terahertz waves—a band of the electromagnetic spectrum that si…

Rice University scientists make tunable light-matter couplings in nanotube films

In the new work, Kono and Rice postdoctoral researcher and lead author Weilu Gao combined techniques from the earlier pa…

A research group from ITMO University has developed the first-ever controlled nanodiamond-based light source. Experiment…

Artificial optical materials could allow cheaper, flatter, more efficient detectors for night vision and other uses.

The new approach uses a flat, artificial material composed of nanostructured optical elements, instead of the usual thic…

New additive manufacturing technique could be used to combine optics, microfluidics and electronics on a single chip

Researchers have developed an inkjet printing technique that can be used to print optical components such as waveguides

The elusive quantum mechanical phenomenon of entanglement has now been made a reality in objects almost macroscopic in size

The researchers managed to bring the motions of two individual vibrating drumheads - fabricated from metallic aluminium…

A team of researchers have developed a new method of detecting single photons, or light particles, using quantum dots. S…

Purdue researchers have helped design a compact switch that enables light to be more reliably confined to small computer…

Thanks to its speed and flexibility in surface design, the LBF process is particularly well suited for cost-effective sh…

Researchers use impurities in diamonds to develop systems capable of peering into samples as small as single cells

A senior physicist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and a member of the physics department faculty, Wa…

A study published in Science reports on how ICFO researchers, with MIT and Univ. of Minho, are able to confine and guide light down to a space of 1-atom thick in dimension.

They sent infrared light through their devices and observed how the plasmons propagated in between the metal and the gra…

In order to demonstrate such capabilities, the authors designed and fabricated assemblies of gold nanorods with well-def…

Technique would allow addition of optical communication components to existing chips with little modification of their designs.

In the latest issue of Nature, a team of 18 researchers, led by the same MIT, Berkeley, and BU groups, reports another b…

YNU and NTT researchers observed petahertz electron oscillation using chromium doped sapphire solid-state material

The benefits of this study are directly related to the control of various optical phenomena through the dielectric polar…

PTB performs the first optical measurements of the properties of an unusual nucleus

Researchers have now performed the first-ever measurements – using optical methods – of some important properties of thi…