When light hits the atom, the electrons absorb the energy from the light. An instant later the electrons are freed from…

The Cold Atom Lab project should help bring theory to practice as scientists manipulate nature with lasers and magnets i…

Cooled to ultralow temperatures, this device emitted and absorbed single quanta of microwave radiation — the same way th…

QCI will focus on building a modular quantum computer that can be reconfigured and reprogrammed, with initial applicatio…

These results open the door to new integrated photonic devices, harnessing electromagnetic fields of light at nanoscale…

The coherent amplification of a localized optical signal within a planar titanium nitride nanoantenna has been achieved by scientists of Kazan Federal University, Harvard University, Nazarbayev University, and Imperial College London

The observable phenomenon is based on the nonlinear interaction of surface plasmon-polaritons and

Physicists develop new method to create images of minute structures

At DESY, the researchers successfully created an image of a hexagonal, micrometre sized structure in the shape of a benz…

Metamaterials offer the very real possibility that our most far-fetched fancies could one day become real as rocks. From…

In perfectly frustrated magnets called spin liquids, the disordered magnetism of these materials persists even at very l…

Researcher Satadal Dutta of the University of Twente now succeeds in introducing a light connection into the heart of a…

Researchers at the Joint Quantum Institute tested a full procedure for encoding a qubit and detecting some of the errors…

Cost-effective optical manipulation platform suitable for mass production of electronic and light-based devices

An international team of researchers has developed a new light-based manipulation method that could one day be used to m…

Light-based devices could be used as biomedical sensors or as flexible connectors for electronics.

Researchers at MIT and several other institutions have developed a method for making photonic devices — similar to elect…

A team of scientist at MPQ and Caltech proposes the realization of two-dimensional topological insulators by classical optical networks.

Different from previous schemes, the scientists propose a setup made of optical passive elements such as fibres, beam sp…

New architecture could prove essential for high-performance quantum photonic circuits

The circuit architecture devised by the team is among the first to combine two different types of optical devices, made…

Decisive milestone for scaling up quantum computers

Researchers have now demonstrated the operation of a four-qubit register comprised of atomic ions trapped in microchip t…

A new Laser Attenuator has been developed, which utilizes an ultra-hard coated, Laser Optical Multilayer Attenuator (LOMA) filter from Delta Optical Thin Film.

It provides the user with safe, repeatable, and real-time control over the attenuation by combining the LOMA filter with…

Zaanen’s theory describes a black hole with a prominent braided texture, like dreadlocks. This is in contradiction with…

Quantum physicists in Innsbruck have developed a protocol to pass quantum information between differently encoded buildi…

With the launch of our a|TopShape and a|AiryShape, asphericon presents a compact and modular beam shaping system based on an aspheric solution.

The new components are capable of converting a collimated Gaussian beam profile into a collimated or focused top hat int…