Solitons appear in many areas of physics and are exceptionally stable. They can travel freely, without losing energy or…

Technique Allows Sharper Detail – and More Information – with Near Infrared Light

Researchers from the University of Houston have reported a new technique to determine the chemical composition of materi…

Researchers from North Carolina State University have developed a new tool for detecting and measuring the polarization…

The experimental results agree with a quantum mechanical prediction within the accuracy of the measurements and they als…

Ultrasensitive nonlinear metamaterials for data transfer

Scientists demonstrated the effect of the all-optical switching between streams of photons using non-linear metamaterial…

To attain the highest possible resolution, grating and prism structures are combined: prisms deflect blue light the most…

First experimental quantum simulation of particle physics phenomena

Physicists in Innsbruck have realized the first quantum simulation of lattice gauge theories, building a bridge between…

By slowing down light to a speed slower than flowing electrons, researchers create a kind of optical “sonic boom.”

The researchers found that when light strikes a sheet of graphene, which is a two-dimensional form of the element carbon…

The new NIST system can generate quantum entanglement in about 10 times as many ions as any previous simulators based on…

Veeco's Quest Broadband Optical Monitor system offers precise sputtering control directly on production substrates and p…

Research team at Göttingen University discovers atomic-scale model system

The experiment consisted of a combination of optical excitation using a laser and scanning tunnelling microscopy

ICFO researchers develop a hybrid photodetector comprising an active colloidal quantum dot photodiode integrated with a graphene phototransistor

ICFO researchers have been able to develop a hybrid photodetector capable of attaining concomitantly better performance…

Researchers at Osaka University developed a technology to control the light wavefront reflected from a cholesteric liqui…

In quantum mechanics, physicists study tiny single particles –photons, electrons – and usually only a small number of th…

The promising potential of the X-ray free electron laser SACLA

Successful observation of ultrafast atomic rearrangements on picosecond timescales in a thin film of the DVD phase-chang…

Scientists have mixed a molecule with light between gold particles, creating a new way to manipulate the physical and ch…

An international consortium led by researchers at the University of Basel has developed a method to precisely alter the…

Yale scientists have found a way to greatly boost the intensity of light waves on a silicon microchip using the power of…

Feat probes light-matter interplay, phenomena of potential technological interest

Harnessing the shared wave nature of light and matter, researchers at the University of Chicago led by Neubauer Family A…

The emitted light is also exceedingly directional, a desirable quality for devices like microscopes that require high sp…