A new method of trapping single photons could bring quantum memory one step closer

How do you stop light in midflight and hold on to it – even for a fraction of a second? This ability could be crucial to…

Our health, safety, and well-being depend on how well we know the chemicals that surround us, and the development of new laser sources will now make it possible to identify chemicals with greater sensitivity

In a breakthrough, a group of researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology developed an on-silicon-…

Rice, Tokyo Metropolitan scientists create platform for unique near-infrared devices

A novel quantum effect observed in a carbon nanotube film could lead to the development of unique lasers and other optoe…

The novel technique was created by sending lots of light into a microresonator – a glass ring on a silicon chip, about t…

ZYGO Launches Next-Generation 3D Optical Profilers with Advances in Data Acquisition, Speed, Sensitivity and Intelligent Operation

The Nexview NX2 and NewView 9000 instruments are based on innovative and versatile non-contact optical technologies for…

Researchers at the University of Bonn are using light to produce a highly reactive variant of carbon dioxide

With their laser and infrared spectrometer, a large apparatus in the basement of the institute, the scientists watch the…

The prism checker uses the Taylor Hobson two axis digital Ultra autocollimator, respected throughout industry for its hi…

A NEW LANDSCAPE PROMISES TO BRING ULTRACOLD ATOMIC NEIGHBORS CLOSER THAN EVER BEFORE

Lasers can make cold atoms mimic the physics seen in other systems—an approach that is familiar terrain for atomic physi…

Insight into metastability and avalanche dynamics in strongly correlated gases with long-range interactions

They created metastable states in an artificial quantum many-body system, an atomic gas whose fundamental quantum proper…

A newly developed laser technology has enabled physicists in the Laboratory for Attosecond Physics (jointly run by LMU Munich and the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics) to generate attosecond bursts of high-energy photons of unprecedented intensity.

Electrons within a target atom are first excited by a photon contained within the pump pulse, which is then followed aft…

A team of researchers at UC San Diego and the University of Campinas built a miniature FTIR spectrometer device using si…

The realisation of controllable large quantum devices is key for the development of quantum technologies.

An international team of researchers led by scientists from the University of Bristol’s Quantum Engineering Technology L…

Unique optical spectroscopy method reveals many-particle effects

By gathering simultaneous measurements of optical and electronic properties in the presence of a high magnetic field, th…

Advance holds promise for “wiring” of quantum computers and other systems, and opens new avenues for understanding basic workings of the quantum realm.

A QEG team has provided unprecedented visibility into the spread of information in large quantum mechanical systems, via…

Light and vibrations intertwine inside a nanoscale cavity

The researchers were able to reshape the nanomaterial phonon response by generating new light-matter hybrid states. They…

Simmons’ team create the atom qubits by precisely positioning and encapsulating individual phosphorus atoms within a sil…

This nano-structure exhibits unusually high optical emission after excitation with a laser, especially in the

Jon Schuller takes a materials approach to the application-rich area of steering light beams without moving parts

One way to encode digital data is to turn a laser on and off rapidly, which can be achieved by splitting the laser into…

Someday your self-driving car could react to hazards before you even see them, thanks to a laser-based imaging technology being developed by Stanford researchers that can peek around corners.

For their system, the researchers set a laser next to a highly sensitive photon detector, which can record even a single…

The new work published in Nature Physics demonstrate similar phenomena in the quantum-gas phase thanks to magnetic inter…