Graphene teams up with two-dimensional crystals for faster data communications

Ultra-fast detection of light lies at the heart of optical communication systems nowadays. Driven by the internet of thi…

Germanium defects in a diamond crystal lattice act as a reliable source for single photons, new research shows. The resu…

JQI physicists observe skipping orbits in the quantum Hall regime

By adjusting the properties of the laser beams, the team produced dynamics characteristic of real materials exhibiting t…

Physicists from Konstanz University succeed in direct detection of vacuum fluctuations

An experimental setup to measure electric fields with extremely high temporal resolution and sensitivity has now made it…

In a paper published in Nature Photonics, the team, which included scientists from the Freie Universität Berlin and the…

Hachkowski joins Northrop Grumman with years of optical systems experience in developing and bringing to market complex…

ICFO and HZDR researchers reveal driving force for orbital order in modern materials

In their experiment, the ICFO and HZDR researchers utilized the unique tunable narrow-band terahertz radiation from the…

Driving toward the practical implementation of the ultimate in secure communications for metropolitan areas

These results were generated using an optical fiber quantum key distribution system that was newly developed by the thre…

A new study suggests the universe was ‘cooked’ just right as it evolved.

The study sheds new light on how to generate, control, and manipulate quantum entanglement, since the defects contain cl…

Using nanometer-scale components, researchers have demonstrated the first optical rectenna, a device that combines the f…

Highly promising for ultra-bright lighting products such as laser headlights

The Optical Single Crystals Group at NIMS, in collaboration with Tamura Corporation and Koha Co., Ltd., successfully dev…

Since the invention of the first lasers in the visible-light region, research has aimed to produce short-wavelength lase…

ICFO research fellow A.Celi and ICFO Professor L.Tarruell comment in Science on the experimental visualization of edge currents using cold atoms trapped in synthetic lattices.

Researchers proposed an original scheme for simulating efficiently this physics using instead cold atoms trapped in an o…

UMass Amherst physicists offer new open source calculations for molecular interactions

UMass Amherst physicists offer new open source calculations for molecular interactions

Although there is never more than one neutron in the interferometer at any given time, the neutron can be thought of as…

The team has shown that intense pulses of light sent through the waveguide can carefully change the state of the GST. An…

Researchers at Swinburne University of Technology, collaborating with Monash University, have developed an ultrathin, fl…

The experiment confirmed that quantum communication is feasible over long distances in fiber. Other research groups have…

Invention of the first integrated circularly polarized light detector on a silicon chip opens the door for development o…

Achievable Even by Silicone Alone; Developments of New Functions through Integration with Semiconductor Electronics

NIMS MANA researchers elucidated a new principle whereby electromagnetic waves including light propagate on the surface…