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Researchers make better sense of incoherent light

A technique called plasmonic interferometry helps to detect spatial coherence in ‘incoherent’ light.

The results are the first experimental confirmation of coherence theory at or below the wavelength of light

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A tight squeeze for electrons – quantum effects observed in ‘one-dimensional’ wires

Researchers have observed quantum effects in electrons by squeezing them into one-dimensional

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Diffraction-controlled laser-driven proton acceleration

A targeted way to manipulate beams of protons accelerated using ultrashort and ultraintense laser pulses has been demonstrated by a team of researchers led at the University of Strathclyde.

By using the diffraction of intense laser light as it passes through a

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New optofluidic platform features tunable optics and novel 'lightvalves'

UC Santa Cruz engineers use flexible silicone material to build an integrated optofluidic platform for biological sample processing and optical analysis

The flexibility of PDMS allows for novel ways of controlling both light and fluids on the chip. Using multilayer soft li…

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New principle for highly efficient optical device verified

Quantized magneto-optical effect observed in topological insulator

A group of researchers at the University of Tokyo and their collaborators have demonstrated that when a topological insu…

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Warm regards for confined light in nanophotonic circuits

Researchers have found a way to non-invasively measure the intensity profile of light that is confined by disorder in na…

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Ultrafast Meets Ultrasmall

A new ICFO review on controlling Nanoantennas and Molecules at ultrafast timescales graces the August cover of ACS Photonics.

A new ICFO review on controlling Nanoantennas and Molecules at ultrafast timescales graces the August cover of ACS Photo…

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Department of Energy Funds Research on Optoelectronic Devices

When integrated into high-density power modules, the technology will lead to superior performance in terms of power dens…

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Electron beam microscope directly writes nanoscale features in liquid with metal ink

The automated process is controlled by weaving a STEM instrument’s electron beam through a liquid-filled cell to spur de…

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Judging a book through its cover

New computational imaging method identifies letters printed on first nine pages of a stack of paper.

MIT researchers and their colleagues are designing an imaging system that can read closed books. In the latest issue of…

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UMD physicists discover 'smoke rings' made of laser light

3-D ring structures made by high-intensity lasers could aid the design of powerful microscopes and more efficient telecommunication lines

he vortices travel along with the laser pulse at the speed of light and control the energy flow around it. The newly dis…

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New Chip Could Bring Highest Level of Encryption to Any Mobile Device

First use of quantum technology to create a random number generator that is both tiny and fast

For the first time, engineers have developed a fast random number generator based on a quantum mechanical process that c…

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Ultrashort and Extremely Precise

A group of theoretical physicists headed by Oriol Romero-Isart from the Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Informa…

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Measuring Tiny Forces with Light

The PML team is currently developing two types of force-measurement devices that use laser light to reliably create smal…

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The enigma machine takes a quantum leap

Researchers at the University of Rochester have moved beyond the theoretical in demonstrating that an unbreakable encryp…

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New breed of optical soliton wave discovered

Applied scientists led by Caltech's Kerry Vahala have discovered a new type of optical soliton wave that travels in the…

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ZEISS launches a new high performance wafer and mask tuning system

With its latest optical design, it takes two main mask tuning processes to the next level in terms of efficiency, accura…

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An Optical Method of Sorting Nanoparticles by Size

NIST scientists have devised and modeled a unique optical method of sorting microscopic and nanoscopic particles by size…

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A study on high power multi-color source with femtosecond outputs in chosen by OSA journals as a Spotlight in Optics

As mentioned in the review, the researchers used optical synchronization of a mid-IR optical parametric chirped pulse am…

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Quantum Technology to Enhance Resolution of Microscopes and Telescopes

Researchers from NUS Electrical and Computer Engineering have discovered new optical techniques that enable separation b…

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