Company closes $11 million Series A from Matrix Partners and Spark Capital to bring revolutionary chip to market

Through patented technology developed at MIT, Lightmatter has created a silicon chip that uses light signals, rather tha…

We've developed a technique that enables us to reduce interference between qubits as we add more and more qubits to a ch…

Scientists from PTB present a perturbation-free laser pulse scheme for precision measurements on atoms

In essence, the first pulse triggers an oscillation between the atomic states. The second pulse serves to check whether…

Modifying surface codes can improve error correction 400 percent

The theoretical breakthrough from the team of David Tuckett, Professor Stephen Bartlett and Associate Professor Steven F…

Optical rectennas operate by coupling the light’s electromagnetic field to an antenna, in this case an array of multiwal…

To capture one of the shortest quantum events possible, the researchers used a technique known as optical gating. Simil…

A close relative of the laser has been confined to the lab due to its finicky nature, but a recent discovery may now bring the technology into a range of applications from health care to environmental science.

The light source these researchers study consists of an initial step where pulses of light from a traditional laser are…

An integrated metasurface converts colors of light over broadband inside a waveguide

Researchers have developed a system to convert one wavelength of light into another without the need to phase match. The…

As a new field of quantum information, quantum metrology aims to realize better precision beyond classical methods with…

UC Riverside team determines how electron spins interact with crystal lattice in nickel oxide

The team was able to accomplish this task by using Raman spectroscopy with an ultraviolet laser, instead of conventional…

In a paper published in Nature Communications, the researchers have taken an important step: precisely controlling the m…

From a rack-mount system toward a microchip

Transferring this technology to practical applications will make it possible to incorporate the atomic clock into smartp…

The physicists studied what are known as quantum dots, artificial atoms in a semiconductor, which the new method was abl…

Electrons trapped in silicon as qubits can now only make direct contact with their nearest neighbours. Lieven Vandersype…

Scientists develop quantum metamaterial from complex twin qubits

An international team consisting of Russian and German scientists has made a breakthrough in the creation of seemingly i…

Mirror family offers more than 40 models

TECHSPEC® Low Scatter Off-Axis Parabolic Mirrors precisely direct and focus incident collimated light at a specific angl…

Research in Nature outlines method to make the images of science fiction

A 3D image that floats in air, that you can walk all around and see from every angle, is actually called a volumetric im…

Optics Letter selects ICFO study as one of the top downloaded papers of December 2017.

In the study published in Optics Letters, and highlighted as one of the top downloads of the month of December 2017, the…

A cost-effective, room temperature solution to magnetic control of twisted light could enable mass-market 3-D displays,…

Optic LMSU-based scientists developed a new model of frequency combs in optical microresonators

The developed mathematical tools are important for the scientists to understand how to obtain optical combs in environme…