The researchers invented a new family of zinc germanosilicate glass that has a high refractive index comparable to that…

Researchers at KTH have taken aim at the key component of lidar, optical beam-stearing, and developed a device that is s…

Understanding the dynamics of massive mesoscopic objects levitated in high vacuum is among the most exciting recent area…

Lone atoms are a potential building block for harnessing quantum physics. If researchers can capture and control these t…

In a paper in Nature Photonics, they describe trapping nanoparticle-sized silica beads with an optical tweezer in a vacu…

A new ultra-efficient laser paves the way for new applications using miniature atomic clocks.

The international team has discovered an exceptionally efficient and robust microcomb based on a unique wave type called…

Achievement can be applied to speed up quantum computers and design new quantum technological devices

The key to the new observation was that dissipation, and hence the energy shift, can be turned on and off. Control of su…

In order to generate 775-nm-wavelength light with a 1550-nm-wavelength pump, the researchers designed a semi-nonlinear w…

This strong-field phenomenon converts many low-energy photons from an intense laser pulse into a photon of much higher e…

In a first, experiments conducted by the Griffith research team using ultra short pulses of light and atomic hydrogen in…

Researchers in NICT and LNE-SYRTE operated their strontium optical lattice clocks independently from December 2 to 12 an…

Using numerical simulations, the researchers found that this unconventional type of conductivity, which is believed to t…

he device has demonstrated an efficient on-chip shaping of photons enabled by nanomechanics driven at microwave frequenc…

Optical processing comes at a pivotal time of change in computing. Demand for AI is exploding just as silicon-based proc…

The research team used two stacked nanophotonic structures just several tens ofnanometers thick to adjust the re…

Unique Weyl semimetal delivers largest intrinsic conversion of light to electricity

Typically, light is converted to electricity by chemically altering a semiconductor to have a built-in electric field. A…

Scientists at Aalto University and VTT have developed a faster way to read information out of qubits, the basic building blocks of a quantum computer

The new method applies an extra microwave pulse at the same time to the qubit itself, as well as to the circuit attached…

The quantum world is notoriously complex, its multiple layers and miniscule components eluding standard analytical approaches.

Their experiment simultaneously determined two complementary polarization properties of a single photon and achieved the…

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A team of Cambridge researchers have found a way to control the sea of nuclei in semiconductor quantum dots so they can operate as a quantum memory device.

They then showed they can control and manipulate the thousands of nuclei as if they form a single body in unison, like a…