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Stanford researchers discover a new way of generating ultra-short bursts of light

A close relative of the laser has been confined to the lab due to its finicky nature, but a recent discovery may now bring the technology into a range of applications from health care to environmental science.

The light source these researchers study consists of an initial step where pulses of light from a traditional laser are…

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Changing the color of light

An integrated metasurface converts colors of light over broadband inside a waveguide

Researchers have developed a system to convert one wavelength of light into another without the need to phase match. The…

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USTC Firstly Achieve A Practical Heisenberg-limited Quantum Metrology

As a new field of quantum information, quantum metrology aims to realize better precision beyond classical methods with…

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Mysteries of Nickel Oxide – a Promising Spintronic Material – Are Revealed

UC Riverside team determines how electron spins interact with crystal lattice in nickel oxide

The team was able to accomplish this task by using Raman spectroscopy with an ultraviolet laser, instead of conventional…

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Penn Engineering Research Gives Optical Switches the ‘Contrast’ of Electronic Transistors

In a paper published in Nature Communications, the researchers have taken an important step: precisely controlling the m…

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A New Architecture for Miniaturization of Atomic Clocks Exploiting a Piezoelectric-Thin-Film Vibration

From a rack-mount system toward a microchip

Transferring this technology to practical applications will make it possible to incorporate the atomic clock into smartp…

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Optical Nanoscope Allows Imaging of Quantum Dots

The physicists studied what are known as quantum dots, artificial atoms in a semiconductor, which the new method was abl…

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From spin to light: two Delft scientists separately bring together two worlds

Electrons trapped in silicon as qubits can now only make direct contact with their nearest neighbours. Lieven Vandersype…

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Quantum control

Scientists develop quantum metamaterial from complex twin qubits

An international team consisting of Russian and German scientists has made a breakthrough in the creation of seemingly i…

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TECHSPEC® Low Scatter Off-Axis Parabolic Mirrors exhibit less than 50Å RMS surface roughness

Mirror family offers more than 40 models

TECHSPEC® Low Scatter Off-Axis Parabolic Mirrors precisely direct and focus incident collimated light at a specific angl…

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Better than a hologram: BYU study produces 3D images that float in 'thin air'

Research in Nature outlines method to make the images of science fiction

A 3D image that floats in air, that you can walk all around and see from every angle, is actually called a volumetric im…

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Self-tuning optical resonator

Optics Letter selects ICFO study as one of the top downloaded papers of December 2017.

In the study published in Optics Letters, and highlighted as one of the top downloads of the month of December 2017, the…

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Holography, LIDAR on the cheap: Nanoparticle gel controls twisted light with magnetism

A cost-effective, room temperature solution to magnetic control of twisted light could enable mass-market 3-D displays,…

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Scientists developed a new model of frequency combs in optical microresonators

Optic LMSU-based scientists developed a new model of frequency combs in optical microresonators

The developed mathematical tools are important for the scientists to understand how to obtain optical combs in environme…

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RESEARCHERS USE SOUND WAVES TO ADVANCE OPTICAL COMMUNICATION

Illinois researchers have demonstrated that sound waves can be used to produce ultraminiature optical diodes that are ti…

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Big energy savings: OSU researchers build the world’s smallest electro-optic modulator

The new modulator is 10 times smaller and can potentially be 100 times more energy efficient than the best previous devi…

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New input for quantum simulations

An international group of researchers, including UvA physicist Michael Walter, have devised new methods to create intere…

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Building ‘scaled-down synchrotron’ begun

This revolutionary X-ray source operates on a physics principle whereby an X-ray beam is generated from collisions betwe…

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Artificial agent designs quantum experiments

All starts with an empty laboratory table for photonic quantum experiments. The artificial agent then tries to develop n…

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Drastic phase changes in topologically-engineered planar absorbers improve sensitivity of optical sensors

In a new work, an international team led by an MIT researcher Dr. Svetlana Boriskina developed a simple and robust plana…

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