Such two-photon sources are interesting for the following reason: They can be used to transfer information

NICT paves a way for realizing a high detection efficiency with an ultralow noise

NICT has succeeded in the development of flexible optical design method for superconducting nanowire single-photon detec…

Compared with typical reflective elements, immersion gratings enable spectrometers that are smaller in size and realize…

A laser and detector in one: a microscopic sensor has been developed at TU Wien, which can be used to identify different gases simultaneously.

One ring emits the laser light which passes through the gas before being reflected back by a mirror. The second ring the…

Physicists create best ever quantum clones

The new cloning method uses high performance optical amplifiers to clone light encoded with quantum information -- it is…

Kansas State University researchers are part of an international team that has used a molecule's own electrons to scatte…

Paul Barclay and his team make the first-ever nano-sized optical resonator from a single crystal of diamond

The researchers have made the first-ever nano-sized optical resonator (or optical cavity) from a single crystal of diamo…

Researchers at Missouri University of Science and Technology are creating a new approach to reconstruct 3-D full-color h…

A team of scientists, led by the University of Southampton, have produced a fast nanoscale optical transistor using gold…

For the first time, a team including scientists from the National Institute of Standards and Technology have used neutro…

Scientists manipulate surfaces in such a manner that they hardly reflect any light and practically become invisible

This gradual refractive index change has the effect that the layer hardly reflects any of the incoming light. Instead, a…

Combining optical and electronic technology, Stanford researchers have made a new type of computer that can solve problems that are a challenge for traditional computers.

Combining optical and electronic technology, Stanford researchers have made a new type of computer that can solve

By using ultrafast laser flashes, scientists at Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics generated and measured the fastes…

UT-research shows remarkable interaction of light

The UT scientists, publishing their new findings in Physical Review A, previously developed a technique for sending ligh…

UNSW engineers have created a new quantum bit that remains in a stable superposition for 10 times longer than

Bosons in an optical ‘egg box’ lattice form an interesting topological system

Morais Smith investigated bosons in an exotic optical lattice, a so-called Lieb lattice. This simulates the lattice exac…

To control and measure superconducting qubits, the researchers use microwave pulses. The pulses are typically sent from

Distributing quantum information on a bridge, or network, could also enable novel forms of quantum sensing, since quantu…

Harnessing solid-state quantum bits, or qubits, is a key step toward the mass production of electronic devices based on…

New study tests quantum teleportation in a city's fiber network for the first time. In the future, quantum teleportation…