Opening the door to ultracompact devices exploiting functional fluids.

A team of researchers has announced that they have successfully developed a core material to downsize the silicon photon…

Converting a single photon from one color, or frequency, to another is an essential tool in quantum communication, which…

The QCL market segment is growing four times faster than the total laser market

A future generation of atomically thin optoelectronics devices, including transistors, photodetectors and solar cells, i…

The Material May be Applicable to the Development of New Optical Elements and Photonic Integrated Circuits

A material having zero refractive index allows light to travel at a constant phase, thus making light to be guided even…

KIT Researchers for the First time integrate organic lasers on a silicon photonic chip -- publication in nature communications

This is the first time organic lasers were integrated on a single silicon photonic chip

World’s smallest heat engine uses just a single particle

A team of researchers used a Paul trap to capture a single electrically charged calcium atom. This atom can be heated wi…

Nanoscribe’s 3D printer offers a state-of-the-art solution to product developers providing access to the highest-resolut…

In phase transitions, for instance between water and water vapour, the motional energy competes with the attractive ener…

The unique electromagnetic thin film solution for satellite systems is manufactured with non-metallic coatings and has n…

Simulating the feasibility of a terahertz radiation device

This simulation shows that the intensity of UV light passing through a graphene nano-ribbon is modulated with the freque…

The team is developing tools to study phonon scattering so that the size, shape, and composition of nanoparticles can be…

Metamaterials are engineered to manipulate electromagnetic radiation — such as radio waves, microwaves, visible light or…

Newly expanded mirror line features Protected Silver Coatings

First Surface Mirrors are available in circular, square and rectangular dimensions. The rectangular mirrors are ideally…

Could a new take on this classical experiment also offer a new way to detect rotating black holes?

A lot of the experiments that involving twisted light are done with lasers - coherent sources of light - and often rely…

New highly sensitive spectroscopy method could offer on-site carbon dating and greenhouse gas measurements

As the light repeatedly bounces between the mirrors, the radiocarbon molecules in the cavity absorb some of the light. T…

Researchers have demonstrated a new approach to modifying the light absorption and stretchability of atomically thin two…

Researchers at Heriot-Watt are developing a tamper-proof hologram that could replace serial numbers and barcodes, reduci…

For the first time, the physicists were able to quantitatively measure long-range interactions between magnetic atoms in…

An Australian research team has created a breakthrough chip for the nano-manipulation of light, paving the way for next…