Using sophisticated optical microscopy techniques, Columbia engineers are first to demonstrate that sufficient strain in 2D material can yield single-photon emitters, key to quantum technologies…
MIT engineers develop a hybrid process that connects photonics with “artificial atoms,” to produce the largest quantum chip of its type. MIT researchers have developed…
The novel fibers’ latest advances, published recently in Nature Photonics, have underlined the technology’s potential for next-generation optical interferometric systems and sensors. Hollow-core optical fibers…
Australian and German researchers build modular bridge design for nanoscale photonic chip. Photonic chips have huge potential for the future of computers and telecommunications. Australian…
‘Twisted’ layers of 2D materials produce photonic topological transition at ‘magic’ rotation angles. Monash researchers are part of an international collaboration applying ‘twistronics’ concepts (the…
With greater freedom to design photonic devices, researchers can accelerate optics and photonics research. Xu Yi, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at the…
Army researchers predict quantum computer circuits that will no longer need extremely cold temperatures to function could become a reality after about a decade. For…
A team at UPV’s Nanophotonics Technology Center has discovered a new fundamental symmetry in electromagnetism, acoustics and elasticity laws: a temporal supersymmetry. According to Carlos…
In another verification of the validity of Einstein’s theory of general relativity, published in Nature Photonics, scientists from the RIKEN Center for Advanced Photonics and…
Many of the most challenging optimization problems encountered in various disciplines of science and engineering, from biology and drug discovery [1] to routing and scheduling…
Breakthrough after 50 years of work paves the way for photonic chips. Emitting light from silicon has been the ‘Holy Grail’ in the microelectronics industry…
Simple chip powered by quantum dots allows standard microscopes to visualize difficult-to-image biological organisms. Do a Google search for dark-field images, and you’ll discover a…
By bombarding an ultrathin semiconductor sandwich with powerful laser pulses, physicists at the University of California, Riverside, have created the first “electron liquid” at room…
An old thought experiment now appears in a new light. In 1935 Erwin Schrödinger formulated a thought experiment designed to capture the paradoxical nature of…
Yale scientists have discovered that laser light can be used to cool traveling sound waves in a silicon chip. Their findings appear in the Nov….
The way that ordinary materials undergo a phase change, such as melting or freezing, has been studied in great detail. Now, a team of researchers…
Yale scientists have demonstrated a new method to control the behavior of light on a silicon chip — specifically, its direction — by using sound…
Nearly 150 years ago, the physicist James Maxwell proposed that a circular lens that is thickest at its center, and that gradually thins out at…