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Light controls sound in a nanoscale ‘quantum Hall’ metamaterial

In their recent publication in Nature Communications, the researchers demonstrate how light can be used to make sound tr…

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Researchers created and measured a periodic structure based on “knot particles” for the first time

In the paper, the researchers explain that metasurfaces are 2D or 3D structures made of small repeating units, each smal…

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Using lasers to control vibrations

Using a micro-scale resonator fashioned from crystalline quartz, a research team

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Pushing the resolution limits of scattering near-field optical microscopy

Researchers at the Department of Physical Chemistry at the Fritz-Haber Institute have developed an approach to scatterin…

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Optical Magnetometer Measures Magnetic Field Direction for the First Time

In the tested experimental setup with two laser light beams angled towards each other, two resonances could be measured:…

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The art and science of twisting light

SUTD researchers designed a novel nonlinear chiral metasurface that could generate circularly polarized light more easily, expanding optics-based applications.

The nonlinearity of the metasurface is essential in this transformation of light. A linear metasurface would filter the

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New technique improves multi-photon state generation

Significant step forward in making quantum dot sources more practical for real-world applications

Their approach uses a purely optical technique called stimulated two-photon excitation to generate streams of photons in…

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Nanophotonics: an ultrafast light switch

The researchers designed and built structures that were each made of two tiny silicon rods, which were deliberately give…

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ICFO researchers address long-standing debate in charge carrier transport

Then the ICFO team used ultrafast laser pulses and time-resolved microscopy to track how

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Metalenses reinvented: stronger, smarter, and self-cleaning

Through precise control of deposition parameters, the researchers optimized the refractive index of

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Alluxa Introduces Breakthrough ULTRA Low-Stress Dichroic Deposition Process for Thin Substrates

Company will highlight new ULTRA Low-Stress Dichroic process at SPIE Optics + Photonics in booth #735, San Diego Covention Center, August 5 – 7, 2025.

The new low-stress Sirrus coating process enables ultra-flat dichroics on

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Photon Design’s HAROLD quantum dot laser simulator is a release candidate available for customer evaluation.

The HAROLD module enables engineers to model a quantum dot laser's epitaxy structure, including

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Professor Jian Shi Shares Perspective on a Unique Light-Matter Interaction in a Promising New Class of Semiconducting Material

Shi reflects on the so-called photogalvanic effect in non-centrosymmetric halide perovskites in a Nature Reviews Physics article

They have applications in spin computing, which involves harnessing the spin of electrons, rather than

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Bagged: Skyrmions

In a new study published in Advanced Materials, the research team demonstrates how nanoscale modifications of the magnet…

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When light collides with light

When photons interact with photons, virtual particles can be created. They cannot be measured directly, as they

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The magic of magnons

By coherently exciting magnon pairs using laser pulses, the research team has achieved astonishing effects with great po…

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Terahertz light controls atomically thin semiconductors

The researchers employ specially designed nanoscale antennas to convert terahertz light into vertical electric fields in

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KRISS unveils record-breaking “absolute distance measurement system” nearing the quantum limit

Fast, precise, and field-deployable: A quantum-level optical frequency comb system that measures 0.34 nanometers in just 25 microseconds

The absolute distance measurement system based on optical frequency comb spectral interferometry, developed by

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The Origin of Quantum Nature of Light in Maxwell's Equations: Cheyney-Supported Research Revolutionises Perspective on Light

The research is based on a prior discovery on electromagnetic radiation published in Physical Review Letters, which was…

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Manx Precision Optics Announces the Installation of a New E-Beam Coating Chamber

MPO’s new coating chamber extends the number of coating machines to four. Capable of high laser-damage threshold coating…

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