Researchers from the Naval Research Laboratory use gated digital holography methods to develop foliage penetrating LiDAR that can survey obscured ground

With a specially designed laser system and a new methodology based on gated digital holography, research from the Naval…

Researchers demonstrate nanoscale particles that ordinary light sources can set spinning.

The team decided to work on engineering the particles themselves, rather than the light beams, to get them to respond to…

The motion of the new material is due to the fact that one side contracts in reaction to light, and the

In a disruptive breakthrough for photonic quantum information science, INRS researchers have created a powerful system that takes advantage of the frequency domain properties of photons.

The system uses a small and cost-effective photonic chip fabricated through processes similar to those used for integrat…

The generation, entanglement and control of high-dimensional quantum bits on an integrated chip has been demonstrated fo…

A tiny sphere and a laser beam inside of which it hovers as if by magic – with these simple ingredients Martin Frimmer a…

Combining nanophotonics and thermoelectrics, engineers at Caltech generate materials capable of distinguishing between tiny differences in wavelengths of light

Engineers at Caltech have for the first time developed a light detector that combines two disparate technologies—nanopho…

Given that the technology to create various new nanostructures is advancing, techniques to identify structures that maxi…

Loaded with standard features, like a low-noise, high-speed, 11.6 megapixel sensor and vibration-robust acquisition tech…

ICFO researchers achieve light phase modulation with a footprint 30 times smaller than the light wavelength.

In a recent paper published in Nature Photonics, ICFO researchers have developed a phase modulator based on graphene cap…

Silicon carbide readily lends itself to production of quantum devices

An international team led by the University of Chicago’s Institute for Molecular Engineering has discovered how to manip…

TRIOPTICS GmbH presents the fast and high-precision AspheroCheck UP centration sys-tem for fully automated quality control of aspheres at LASER 2017 in Munich.

In order to ensure the best possible measurement precision, a completely automated measurement pro-cess that requires no…

Versatile optomechanical beams have potential applications in biology, chemistry, electronics.

Struck by light, the mechanical beam reflects the photons, and recoils in the process, creating small vibrations in the…

Innovative technology mimics the depth cues our eyes are accustomed to in the real-world

The new display presents actual 3D images using an approach called optical mapping. This is done by dividing a digital d…

American scientists have developed an innovative, atomic resonance-based method to measure electric fields that allows for self-calibration and improved spatial resolution

EIT involves a medium that normally absorbs light, and uses a system of two lasers tuned to the transition between state…

Photonic Professional GT sets benchmarks in microfabrication

Using Nanoscribe´s 3D printer Photonic Professional GT, which is based on the technique of two-photon-polymerization, a…

Prototype device enables photon-photon interactions at room temperature.

An efficient way to make photons interact could open new prospects for both classical optics and quantum computing, an e…

Quantum nanoscope paper published in Science

The experiments were performed with ultra-high quality graphene. To excite and image the ultra-slow ripples of light in…

Precise Earth-based measurements of optical signals from satellite show that equipment already in space can be adapted for extremely secure data encryption

In a new study, researchers demonstrate ground-based measurements of quantum states sent by a laser aboard a satellite 3…

New study opens the door to solid-state devices that use excited electrons

For the first time, engineers and scientists at Caltech have been able to directly observe the ultrafast motion of elect…