UNSW ramps up commercial efforts to build a 10-qubit forerunner to a silicon-based quantum computer.

It will drive the development and commercialization of a 10-qubit quantum integrated circuit prototype in silicon by 202…

With an all-silicon nanoantenna, researchers demonstrate optical trapping of quantum dots in microfluidic chamber for future biosensing applications

Harnessing the nano-tractor-beam like abilities of optical tweezers, researchers have developed an all-silicon nanoanten…

The MRSI-HVM3 high speed die bonder supports many applications including chip-on-carrier (CoC), chip-on-submount (CoS),…

Due to the rapidly growing processing power of computers, conventional encryption of data is becoming increasingly insec…

Guide Star Alliance led by TOPTICA recognized with Paul F. Forman Team Award

The sodium laser system creates an artificial guide star that serves to measure and remove image blurring due to the ear…

Physicists demonstrate how heating up a quantum system can be used as a universal probe for exotic states of matter.

In practice, the proposed experiment would consist in preparing a topological phase, by loading an ultracold gas into an…

Current encryption techniques rely on complex mathematical algorithms to code information that is decipherable only to t…

The recent review by members of ITMO’s International Research Center for Nanophotonics and Metamaterials and their forei…

Working in a uniquely stable manufacturing environment, Optical Surfaces skilled staff was able to produce the silver co…

Proof on ultra-smooth atomically flat gold films

Recently, scientists of the University of Stuttgart in collaboration with research groups of the University of Duisburg-…

Light switches from spray cans

Each of these droplets forms a microlens when it dries. A whole field of these microlenses can influence beams of light…

Researchers use long-wavelength low energy femtosecond laser pulses to study relativistic self-collapse in plasma, leading to relativistic electron beams

The team found that electron beams were present for powers such that the characteristic self-focusing length in plasma w…

Physicists at the University of Bonn create optical 'wells' for a super-photon for the first time

Physicists at the University of Bonn have managed to create optical hollows and more complex patterns into which the lig…

First explicit bounds from interference experiments with matter waves

In their experiments at the University of Vienna, researchers of the Quantum Nanophysics Group headed by Markus Arndt pr…

A Chinese study achieves the first quantum teleportation of independent single-photon qubits from a ground observatory to a low Earth orbit satellite.

Chinese scientists have made a gigantic step forward reporting the teletransportation of quantum states of entangled par…

Milan Allan receives his ERC grant for research on quantum materials. These show mysterious quantum mechanical effects o…

Yang's WGM features two companion silica scatterers, or nanotips, which set on the toroid, or donut-shaped wire, the ave…

the researchers report the transmission of two real-time video signals through a terahertz multiplexer at an aggregate d…

Rice University chemists make laser-induced graphene from wood

Rice chemist James Tour and his colleagues used a laser to blacken a thin film pattern onto a block of pine. The pattern…

Approach could predict coating lifetime and help improve efficiency of airplane engines

Researchers have demonstrated, for the first time, that an optical analysis method can reveal weak areas in ceramic ther…