In the future, it can be miniaturized on a photonic chip and applied in optical and

Lightwave electronics aim to integrate optical and electronic systems at incredibly high speeds, leveraging the ultrafast oscillations of light fields.

Lightwave electronics is an emerging field that aims to integrate optical and electronic systems at incredibly high spee…

The material has a high refractive index, meaning that light can be more effectively

Physicists from Würzburg present a nanometre-sized light antenna with electrically modulated surface properties – a breakthrough that could pave the way for faster computer chips.

Instead of trying to change the entire resonator, the team focussed on changing its surface properties. This breakthroug…

Scientists around the world are working to make magnon-based computing possible, complementing the current electron-base…

ICFO leads the first experimental demonstration of a deep subwavelength topological edge state within a nanophotonic system, a turnover in the field of topological Nanophotonics.

To enable the emergence of topological edge states, the team constructed a one-dimensional polaritonic lattice platform

The aim of the research was to explore and better understand the relationship between entanglement and interference in s…

A method developed at the University of Bonn could have potential applications for tap-proof communication

The researchers at the IAP create super photons by filling a tiny container with

The real light distribution has a peculiar pattern that light is prevented from exiting to the

The new light source is made from a special material called

Micropillar microcavity optophononic resonators, which confine both light and sound within the same region, have shown g…

Perovskites could play a key role in the further development of optical technologies, and the

The review first introduces the fundamentals of the CLIPP including the concept, the equivalent electric model and the

Known as excitons, these pairs of opposite charges arise from the

A light source that can generate entangled photons is crucial for quantum communication. Entanglement is

A new milestone has been set for levitated optomechanics as Prof. Tongcang Li’s group observed the Berry phase of electron spins in nano-sized diamonds levitated in vacuum

Levitated nanodiamonds with embedded spin qubits have been proposed for precision measurements and creating large quantu…

Shaping, polishing and correcting the more complex aspheres mechanically is time-consuming and costly. This is where fre…

In a study published in Nature, researchers from The University of Texas at Austin and the MPSD in Hamburg have demonstr…

These systems rely on photons to process data, and although light can theoretically be used to perform computations much…

Researchers at Leibniz University Hannover send entangled photons and laser pulses of the same colour over a single optical fibre for the first time.

With the concept demonstrated for the first time in the experiment, the photons can now be sent in the same colour chann…