Lighting Up the Ion Trap: Fiber Optics Built Into a Chip for Quantum Computing
Fiber optics built into a chip can deliver all the laser light needed to control ions for quantum computing and sensing. Walk into a quantum…
Photonics
Super-Fast Quantum Light Detector Paves Way for Higher Performance Quantum Computers
Researchers have developed a tiny device that paves the way for higher performance quantum computers and quantum communications, making them significantly faster than the current…
Researchers Develop a Portable Terahertz Laser for Powerful Sensing and Imaging
The instrument could bring powerful sensing and imaging capabilities out of the lab and into hospitals, airports, or other settings. Researchers at MIT and the…
Generating Photons for Communication Between Processors in a Quantum Computing System
New technique provides a means of interconnection between processors, opening the way to a complete quantum computing platform. MIT researchers using superconducting quantum bits connected…
Scientists Capture Light in a Polymeric Quasicrystal – New Possibilities for Laser and Sensor Design
ITMO University scientists have conducted several experiments to investigate polymeric quasicrystals that ultimately confirmed their initial theory. In the future, the use of quasicrystals may…
Newly Discovered Memory Effect Alters Doppler Wave Signature
Remembrance of Waves Past: Memory Imprints Motion on Scattered Waves Between relativistic and classical wave regimes, newly discovered memory effect alters the Doppler wave signature….
Breakthrough in the Creation of Electrically Driven Nanolasers for Integrated Circuits
Researchers from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology and King’s College London cleared the obstacle that had prevented the creation of electrically driven nanolasers…
Physicists “Trick” Photons Into Behaving Like Electrons Using Artificial Magnetic Fields
Scientists have discovered an elegant way of manipulating light using a “synthetic” Lorentz force — which in nature is responsible for many fascinating phenomena including…
Using Air to Amplify Light in Hollow-Core Optical Fibers
“The idea had been going around my head for about 15 years, but I never had the time or the resources to do anything about…
Tiny Bubbles Make a Quantum Leap: Key Breakthrough to Quantum Technologies and Future Photonic Circuitry
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…
Scaling Up the Quantum Chip: MIT Engineers Connect Photonics With “Artificial Atoms”
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…
Hollow-Core Fiber Raises Prospects for Next-Generation Scientific Instruments
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…
Light, Fantastic: The Path Ahead for Faster, Nanoscale Photonic Computer Processors
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…
Manipulating the Flow of Light in Extreme Ways Using “Magic Angle” Twistronics
‘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…
Chaos Helps Achieve Broadest Microcomb Spectral Span on Record
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 Advance Toward Quantum Computing at Room Temperature
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…
Temporal Supersymmetry Breakthrough Paves Way to Omnidirectional Invisible Materials
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…
Scientists Test Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity Using the Tokyo Skytree
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…