Rice, Karlsruhe physicists probe entropy near quantum phase transition

By precisely measuring the entropy of a cerium copper gold alloy with baffling electronic properties cooled to nearly ab…

Researchers from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have demonstrated a new level of optical isolation neces…

DOEs for demanding and sensitive applications

Double spot beam splitters are diffractive optical elements (DOE) used for separating an incoming laser beam into two id…

The LinkSquare SDK includes the spectrometer and software which enables users to collect spectral fingerprint data for f…

The researchers studied the reflectivity of the cubic diamond-like inverse woodpile crystals by numerical calculations a…

To make their holograms, Ritesh Agarwal and colleagues turned to metasurfaces, which are flat, ultra-thin nanostructured

The NIST technique still uses a laser, but only to gently probe the

An ICFO study in Nature Communications demonstrates the full control of a nano-resonator in the nonlinear regime.

An optically levitated nanoparticle in vacuum is a clear example of a 3D nano-mechanical resonator. Optimally decoupled…

In the latest study, the researchers describe how optical and electrical bistable outputs are constructed from a single…

Making use of a specifically-developed slow light technique to reduce the velocity of light dramatically, researchers at…

Quantum physicist Mikko Möttönen and his team at Aalto University have invented a quantum-circuit refrigerator, which can reduce errors in quantum computing.

The nanoscale refrigerator developed by the research group at Aalto University solves a massive challenge: with its help…

Physicists in Garching observe novel quantum effect that limits the number of emitted photons.

The probability to find a certain number of photons inside a laser pulse usually corresponds to a classical distribution…

New optical micro-oscillator could lead to next-generation timing, navigation and sensing applications

An optical oscillator is similar to a pendulum in a grandfather clock, only instead of a swinging motion to keep time, i…

Faster distributed sensor detects changes in temperature or strain at 1 million points over a 10-kilometer optical fiber

The new sensor is about 4.5 times faster than previously reported sensors with 1 million sensing points. Although there…

Mirrors minimize reflected wavefront error

The coated surface is designed to face the incident light, minimizing energy loss by preventing the light from passing t…

Control of light-matter interaction is central to fundamental phenomena and technologies such as photosynthesis, lasers,…

Computer-assisted methods aid Heidelberg physicists in reproducing experiment with ultracold atoms

A special laser configuration is used to generate a barrier that locks the atoms in a small area. If multiple wells are…

The research could allow scientists to print glass that incorporates different refractive indices in a single flat optic…

An optical system for a full-field X-ray microscope eliminates chromatic aberrations that previously limited resolution capabilities

Researchers have developed an optical system for use in full-field X-ray microscopes that offers a more practical way to…

Researchers at the University of Melbourne are the first in the world to image how electrons move in two-dimensional gra…