Unique lens has a large field of view and short working distance; could enable very small optical devices

Researchers have created a new optical lens that is flat, rather than curved like traditional glass lenses. The unique o…

Australian quantum researchers have been able to identify the exact location of a single atom in a silicon crystal – an…

Physicists develop new method of crystal production

A natural example of a photonic crystal is the opal, whose fascinating coloration is due to the way the light interacts…

Sound waves with a frequency of 400 GHz are generated and detected with short optical pulses from a laser. The sound is…

MPQ researchers show that a single atomic impurity is able to trap infinitely many bosons around it.

The interaction of spin impurities with bosonic reservoirs lies at the heart of very paradigmatic models in Quantum Opti…

Singapore-built satellite makes and measures light particles pair by pair

The team’s device, dubbed SPEQS, creates and measures pairs of light particles, called photons. Results from space show…

High efficiency ultra-thin planar lens could replace heavy, bulky lenses in smart phones, cameras and telescopes

Researchers from Harvard have demonstrated the first planar lens that works with high efficiency within the visible spec…

Researchers have now developed a mobile MEMS-scanning grating-spectrometer in a sugar-cube format to assist in the exami…

The successful Sandia first step, reported in Applied Physics Letters, makes use of electromagnetic forces provided by a…

Device could monitor pollution from power plants and roads and test for explosives at airports

A research team from Adelphi University, Garden City, New York, USA, has now developed a new device that can detect ultr…

Physicists of the Laboratory for Attosecond Physics at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics and the Ludwig-Maximil…

An analogy between science and a romantic dinner

The work is relevant to applications in lighting, nano-sensing, photosynthesis, photovoltaics, and quantum information p…

The simulation can help researchers understand how internal waves can carry materials over long distances

By adjusting the power of the lasers and an applied magnetic field, the researchers traced out different paths through t…

Researchers at ICFO and UB demonstrate how state-of-art quantum simulations with trapped ions can be used to tackle complex computational problems.

Researchers at ICFO and UB demonstrate how state-of-art quantum simulations with trapped ions can be used to tackle comp…

Finding paves the way for devices that switch quickly between transparency and opacity to specific forms of light

This discovery opens up new opportunities in photonics, nanoelectronics, optics and acoustics and many other areas of sc…

Researchers show that optical atomic clocks could offer a practical replacement for microwave atomic clocks as the basis of global time keeping

In The Optical Society's journal for high impact research, Optica, researchers present a way to use optical clocks for m…

The research group of Technion Prof. Erez Hasman has developed technology for compressing dozens of lenses on a nanometr…

In a paper published in the journal Acta Materialia online on May 20, LLNL researcher Ibo Matthews and his team discover…

New Potential for Scanners and Quality Control

The novel source uses a femtosecond laser, which produces 80 million ultrashort light pulses per second. Conventional de…