A single molecule allows a beam of light with a few photons to be controlled - a step towards the photonic computer

A team at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light has demonstrated for the first time a mediation process with…

Discovery offers a ‘game-changer’ for photonics applications

Work by an internationally acclaimed Rochester professor may offer an alternative to the way in which researchers have a…

The Northrop Grumman Institute of Nanophotonics and Nanomaterials will explore the properties of tiny structures and materials

The creation of the institute is based on the shared recognition that technological innovation begins with fundamental s…

The new lens could be used for biomedical research and security imaging

Researchers have used metamaterials and 3-D printing to develop a novel lens that works with terahertz frequencies. Not…

A group of scientists from ITMO University in Saint Petersburg has put forward a new approach to effective manipulation…

An important step toward photonic computation that solves intractable mathematical problems

The team successfully generated more than 10,000 time-multiplexed OPOs using four-wave mixing in a highly nonlinear fibe…

New research results from the Niels Bohr Institute show that light sources can be made much faster by using a principle…

Discovery is a significant step toward multi-channel quantum communication and higher capacity quantum computers

Other research groups have generated time-bin entangled photons, but Kues and his colleagues are the first to create pho…

Physicist Dirk Bouwmeester discovers a promising route for combined optical and solid state-based quantum information processing

New research from UC Santa Barbara scientists and their Dutch colleagues exploits a system that has the potential to tra…

Coinciding with the opening of a new quantum computing laboratory at UNSW by Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, UNSW resea…

More energy in stead of less

Light propagating in a layer of scattering nanoparticles, shows the principles of diffusion - like tea particles in hot…

How weird can quantum effects be and can we put such weirdness to good use? A team led by experts at The University of N…

NIST researchers have devised a way to synchronize the time of two different clocks – separated by as much as 4 km of op…

To efficiently monitor the motion of the membranes with a laser they need to be extremely reflective. In such a thin str…

RMIT researchers have trialled a quantum processor capable of routing quantum information from different locations, in a critical breakthrough for quantum computing.

RMIT University researchers have trialled a quantum processor capable of routing quantum information from different loca…

Method developed at the University of Bonn can be used to produce ultra-precise thermometers

Light consists of tiny indivisible portions, the photons. Under certain conditions, they, too, can condense, if they are…

Nanoantennas shift saturation and bleaching limits.

The saturation limited photon stream restricts the maximal attainable enhancement. Now, researchers have challenged this…

How 5N Plus’ approach means higher infrared FPA yields and lower engineering costs

The team at 5N Plus was highly motivated to tackle the challenges of on-axis crystal growth and develop a more controlle…

Researchers have devised a new approach for controlling light in a silicon chip by bringing the concept of spatial light…

Waveguide with Integrated Carbon Nanotubes for Conversion of Electric Signals into Light / Quicker Computer Chips Are Feasible / Publication in Nature Photonics

Researchers under the direction of KIT have now demonstrated that carbon nanotubes are suited for use as on-chip light s…