Researchers at the Niels Bohr Institute have developed a new method where they can avoid noise by means of laser light a…

Engineers are developing an optical “nanocavity” to boost light absorption in semiconductors; it could improve solar cells, cameras and more

Engineers are developing an optical nanocavity to boost light absorption in semiconductors; it could improve solar cells…

Trapping and moving an individual nano-object in 3D in Nature Nanotechnology.

Researchers demonstrates for the first time the ability to use near-field optical tweezers to trap a nano-size object an…

Exciting plasmons: It could impact everything from national defense, information technology, lighting, optics and imaging.

University of Cincinnati researchers are discovering how to manipulate light to one day better view the world’s tiniest…

Physicists propose a modular quantum computer architecture that offers scalability to large numbers of qubits

How do you build a universal quantum computer? Turns out, this question was addressed by theoretical physicists about 15…

The new device provides a highly stable response after exposure to ultraviolet or extreme ultraviolet radiation. It is…

University of Waterloo physicists have succeeded in measuring how the surfaces of glassy materials flow like a liquid, e…

Multiple optical densities available

TECHSPEC UV-NIR Neutral Density Filters exhibit excellent parallelism of less than 5 arcseconds with outstanding surface…

Defects in microscopic diamonds caused by the presence of silicon could provide researchers with a potent basis for deve…

Always nicely in pairs and indistinguishable:

Semi-conductor quantum points are ideally suited to generate interlocked photon pairs due to their properties. In this w…

JILA physicists used an ultrafast laser and help from German theorists to discover a new semiconductor quasiparticle—a h…

The NanoRam FP offers the same benefits of the original NanoRam but with even more versatility provided by a flexible fi…

Physicists from The University of Queensland have performed joint measurements on single light particles with accuracy n…

Delivers brighter images, longer battery life with optical engines now in development from industry's largest pico ecosystem

The new 0.3 Inch HD TRP chipset leverages TI's proprietary TRP DLP architecture and adaptive IntelliBright™ suite of alg…

MPQ-scientists demonstrate switch ing effects caused by single photons

The idea to perform data processing with light, without relying on any electronic components, has been around for quite…

Nature Photonics Magazine Presents a World-record Micrometer-sized Converter of Electrical into Optical Signals / Future Energy-efficient Chip-to-chip Optical Communication Links

Nature Photonics Magazine Presents a World-record Micrometer-sized Converter of Electrical into Optical Signals / Future…

What’s so ‘super’ about this superfluid

Atomtronics is an emerging technology whereby physicists use ensembles of atoms to build analogs to electronic circuit e…

When two red photons make a blue photon

Here’s a question: Can scientists generate any color of light? The answer is not really, but the invention of the laser…

Engineers build cutting-edge photonic devices using standard chip-making process

As computing power rises, so does the amount of energy needed to operate the machine—which limits computational power. A…

Belgian researchers build the first circuit with stretchable optical interconnections

The first optical circuit built with stretchable interconnections. Electronics that bend and stretch have become possib…