New photonic crystal waveguide based on topological insulators paves the way to build futuristic light-based computers

Engineers at Duke University have demonstrated a device that can direct photons of light around sharp corners with virtu…

Professor Hensinger’s team of University of Sussex physicists have made a quantum computing breakthrough that is capable…

The researchers demonstrate that the flow direction of spin-polarized photocurrents on the surface of TI thin films can…

A team from the University of Washington and the National Tsing Hua University in Taiwan announced that it has construct…

With true quantum computing, problems that are impractical for even the fastest supercomputers to date could be relative…

Fundamental research sheds light on new many-particle quantum physics in atomically thin semiconductors

TMDs represent a new class of atomically thin semiconductors with superior optical and optoelectronic properties. Optica…

The UK’s first quantum accelerometer for navigation has been demonstrated by a team from Imperial College London and M Squared at the National Quantum Technologies Showcase.

The quantum accelerometer relies on the precision and accuracy possible by measuring properties of supercool atoms. At e…

Nanoscale light sources can now be created with unprecedented efficiency and precision, paving way for new developments in quantum computing and quantum cryptography.

The work describes a new method for creating quantum light sources on demand in any desired location on a chip, by stret…

MPSD theorists propose ultrafast route to create magnetic topological Weyl materials

Their results, which have been published in Nature Communications, could enable high-speed magneto-optical topological s…

The researchers combined three techniques – entanglement, passing the beams back and forth along the measurement path, a…

The artificial crystal was created by using an ultrafast laser, which emitted pulses of light one trillionth of a second…

The Optical Diamond-Turning Center can also provide electrolytic, high-phosphorous nickel plating and fabrication for se…

It is opening the way for new quantum experiments that may lead to new secure communications or advanced sensing technol…

The experimental approach successfully used to create the all-optical logic gate consists of the following steps. First,…

Caltech engineers create an optical gyroscope smaller than a grain of rice

The new gyroscope from Hajimiri's lab achieves this improved performance by using a new technique called

Groundbreaking new technology allows super-fast internet by harnessing twisted light beams to carry more data and process it faster.

This world-first nanophotonic device, published in Nature Communications, encodes more data and processes it much faster…

Scientists of University of Stuttgart and Saarland University work on fiber-based quantum communication

Physicists from University of Stuttgart and Saarland University, in Germany, were now able to manipulate the single phot…

Precision lenses provide guaranteed laser damage threshold

TECHSPEC® Laser Grade PCX Lenses have a precision UV fused silica substrate. They feature

For the first time, physicists have built a unique topological insulator in which optical and electronic excitations hybridize and flow together. They report their discovery in "Nature".

The novel topological insulator was built on a microchip and basically consists of the gallium arsenide semiconductor co…

Heating efficiency of laser fusion plasma has been enhanced by guiding relativistic electron beam to be a pre-compressed plasma core using a kilo-tesla-level magnetic field

In this study, laser-to-core energy coupling reached a maximum of 8 percent. The laser-to-core energy coupling, i.e., th…