“Dangerously Powerful” Laser Experiment Sets Record in University Hallway
It’s not at every university that laser pulses powerful enough to burn paper and skin are sent blazing down a hallway. But that’s what happened…
Optics News
A New Era of Optical Communications: The Potential of Parametric Amplifiers
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…
Quantum Breakthrough: Light Source Produces Two Entangled Light Beams
One potential application: Enhancing the sensitivity of atomic magnetometers used to measure the alpha waves emitted by the human brain. Scientists are increasingly seeking to…
New Microscope Uncovers Exciting Insights Into Promising Solar Cell Material
A new characterization tool was developed by a team of scientists, allowing them to gain unique insight into a possible alternative material for solar cells….
Ultrafast Electronic Characterization of Proteins and Materials
Researchers use an optoelectronic resonator to increase the sensitivity of an electron pulse detector, which may lead to ultrafast electronic characterization of proteins and materials….
One Million Times Faster Than Current Technology: New Optical Computing Approach Offers Ultrafast Processing
Processing devices based on polarized light run one million times faster than current technology. Logic gates are the basic building blocks of computer processors. Conventional…
Efficient and Controllable Emission of Circularly Polarized Light From Resonant Metasurfaces
Chiral Quasi Bound States in the Continuum for High-Purity Circularly Polarized Light Source Scientists demonstrate high-purity, highly directional, and high-Q circularly polarized light source from…
New Photonic Materials Could Enable Ultra-Fast Light-Based Computing
Photonic materials are being developed by researchers to allow for powerful and efficient light-based computing Researchers at the University of Central Florida are developing new…
Physicists Control Reactions With Laser Light at the Nanoscale
Physicists at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics and Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich in collaboration with Stanford University have for the first time used laser light…
Wave Mixing Laser- and X-Ray-Beams
Unlike fictional laser swords, real laser beams do not interact with each other when they cross – unless the beams meet within a suitable material…
On-Chip Photodetection: 2D Material Heterojunctions for “Post-Moore Era” Microelectronics
Photonic integrated circuits (PICs) use photons as information carriers and feature ultra-high transmission speed, low delay, and anti-electromagnetic crosstalk. These advantages are expected to solve…
Inspired by an Ancient Light Trick, “Flat Magic Window” Technology Could Enable a New Type of 3D Display
Researchers Create Flat Magic Window With Liquid Crystals For the first time, scientists empolyed liquid crystals to construct a flat magic window — a transparent…
In Einstein’s Footsteps and Beyond: New Insights Into the Foundations of Quantum Mechanics
Zero-index metamaterials offer new insights into the foundations of quantum mechanics. In physics, as in life, it’s always good to look at things from different…
MIT’s Low-Cost Fabrication Method for Thin Mirrors and Silicon Wafers Could Be a Game-Changer
A novel photolithography technique could be a manufacturing game-changer for optical applications. Technologies that depend on lightweight, high-precision optical systems, like space telescopes, X-ray mirrors,…
Fiber Optical Tweezers: When Light Loses Symmetry, It Can Hold Particles
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…
Quantum Internet Breakthrough – Bell State Analyzer Presents Giant Leap Toward Fully Quantum Internet
Scientists’ increasing mastery of quantum mechanics is heralding a new age of innovation. Technologies that harness the power of nature’s most minute scale show enormous…
Breakthrough in Sampling of Light Fields Advances High-Speed Opto-Electronics
LMU-physicists report in Nature Communications what happens during the sampling of a light field. It is an important step towards novel opto-electronic applications. Future electronics…
Stackable “Holobricks” Can Make Giant, Highly Realistic 3D Holographic Images
Researchers have developed a new method to display highly realistic holographic images using ‘holobricks’ that can be stacked together to generate large-scale holograms. The researchers,…
