Breaking of rotational symmetry in ring-shaped nanoparticle leads to surprising quantum property when illuminated with laser.

These quantum rings are two-dimensional structures — crystalline materials composed of a few layers of atoms. The advant…

Conversion between signals in the microwave and optical domains is of great interest, particularly for connecting future…

Deterministic emitters of single photons hold tremendous promise for advanced quantum information applications and could…

Using a new time-based method to control light from an ultrafast laser, researchers have developed a nanoscale 3D printi…

Creating Different Kinds of Light with Manipulable Quantum Properties

Making exciting advances in quantum metrology, the group is using sources of entangled photons to develop multiple quant…

Transmitting the state of an electron back and forth across an array of qubits, without moving the position of electrons…

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In an experiment involving six entangled light particles Proietti and colleagues showed that, under some assumptions, th…

Photons interact on chip-based system with unprecedented efficiency

The new method, reported as a memorandum in the Sept. 18 issue of Optica, works at very low energy levels, suggesting th…

ColorChip introduces a breakthrough RGB Pico-Projector addressing the needs of ultra-compactness, device efficiency and…

For the first time, a distance of 50 kilometers was covered using fiber optic cables

A recipe for creating a microscopic crystal structure that can hold two wavelengths of light at once is a step toward faster telecommunications and quantum computers.

The team’s goal was to force the coexistence of the two laser beams using a photonic crystal cavity, which can focus lig…

Acquisition by giant photonics firm facilitates continued university-industry partnership

This past May the intellectual property developed by Crawford and his team was acquired by Thorlabs, one of the leading…

Technique can help advance quantum computing and secure communication technologies

Rochester Institute of Technology researchers have helped develop a new technique for quantifying entanglement that has…

Silicon Carbide has not been widely used as the material for subminiature optical devices despite its excellent physical…

With this, the international research team has also made an important step towards practical applications such as a futu…

The phenomenon of entanglement forms the basis of a quantum internet. When two fundamental particles are entangled, they…

Using ATAS, the researchers found an ultrafast modification of optical absorption in transition metals under an intense…

The study published in Nature Communications is able to characterize high-order nonlinear susceptibilities in a crystal with the use of HHG, instrumental in signal manipulation for optoelectronics.

In their study, the team of researchers used sapphire crystal wafers for the experiment since this material acts as both…

The work is a proof of concept for scaling down optical devices to sizes that are orders of magnitude smaller than today…

Researchers demonstrate a semiconductor device for the tailored generation of Brillouin signals in the ultrahigh 100GHz-THz regime.

In their study, the researchers devise a novel optical technique to detect and optimize the generated Brillouin spectra…