Physicists have achieved a major breakthrough in quantum technology by significantly extending quantum storage times at telecom wavelengths. This advancement is critical for developing practical…
Technology advance lays groundwork for reliable, compact ultrafast lasers for biomedical applications and more. Researchers have recently developed the first fiber laser capable of producing…
Exploring the interaction of light beams in a stadium-shaped arena provides scientists with a deeper understanding of its complex behavior. Harnessing and controlling light plays…
Scientists have developed an innovative method to study the metastable state of liquids with negative pressure by encapsulating them in optical fibers. This technique provides…
A new approach to optical communication that can be deployed with conventional technology. The patterns of light hold tremendous promise for a large encoding alphabet…
Current fiber-optic cable systems could be leveraged to create a cost-effective, real-time ocean-to-land observatory, providing the possibility to monitor everything from ships, to earthquakes, to…
The ability to amplify optical signals in optical fibers to their quantum limit is a crucial technological advancement that underpins our modern information society. The…
Optical tweezers use light to immobilize microscopic particles as small as a single atom in 3D space. The basic principle behind optical tweezers is the…
Ultrashort flashes of light lasting less than a quadrillionth of a second are fast growing in technological importance. In laser sources, pairs and groups of…
Optical Fiber Could Boost Power of Superconducting Quantum Computers The secret to building superconducting quantum computers with massive processing power may be an ordinary telecommunications…
Using “Curie” — Google’s 10,000-kilometer-long (6,200 miles) underwater fiber-optic cable connecting Los Angeles, California and Valparaiso, Chile — researchers have demonstrated a novel method for…
Seismologists at Caltech working with optics experts at Google have developed a method to use existing underwater telecommunication cables to detect earthquakes. The technique could…
Researchers from the University of Southampton and Université Laval, Canada, have successfully measured for the first time back-reflection in cutting-edge hollow-core fibers that is around…
MIT’s Erica Salazar shows that faster detection of thermal shifts can prevent disruptive quench events in the HTS magnets used in tokamak fusion devices. The…
A world record transmission of 1 petabit per second in a multimode optical fiber increases the current record data rate in multimode optical fibers by…
Scientists at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the University of Nebraska have developed an easier way to generate electrons for nanoscale…
A new hollow optical fiber greatly reduces the “noise” interfering with the signals it transmits compared to the single-mode fibers now widely used, researchers at…
Researchers at CRANN and Trinity’s School of Physics have discovered that a new material can act as a super-fast magnetic switch. When struck by successive…