A new study in Nature Photonics details the unique properties of the UCF-developed laser beam. The speed of a message traveling in these packets is…
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An artistic impression sharing a secret using structured light. Credit: Wits University Wits Researchers have demonstrated a new quantum approach for sharing a secret amongst…
Ultrashort laser pulses induce unusual sound waves via a structural instability in a material. RIKEN physicists have initiated unusual sound waves in a flake using…
The photonic tensor core performs vector-matrix multiplications by utilizing the efficient interaction of light at different wavelengths with multistate photonic phase change memories. Credit: Mario…
Quantum laser light is shone onto a chemical molecule that we wish to measure. Then the light passes our “magic” quantum filter. This filter discards…
In the stretched-pulse soliton Kerr resonator developed by the lab of William Renninger, a single frequency laser enters a fiber ring cavity, generating a broad…
Researchers have demonstrated a novel light-matter interface, realizing the lightest possible mirror formed by a monolayer of 200 atoms. Credit: Max Planck Institute Physicists succeed…
Pseudo-color scanning electron micrograph of the integrated lightwave electronic circuit. Incident ultrafast light waves induce photocurrents in the circuit that encode information about the shape…
The Molecular Photonics Laboratories at UNSW Sydney. Credit: UNSW Sydney/Exciton Science A world-first in light conversion has potential future implications for solar photovoltaics, biomedical imaging,…
Electrons in the crystal of calcium fluoride; Christian HackenbergerElectrons in the Crystal of Calcium Fluoride. Credit: University of Rostock The researchers used powerful laser flashes…
New ground-breaking research from the University of Surrey could change the way scientists understand and describe lasers – establishing a new relationship between classical and…
Experimental setup to generate a set of stable frequencies in a cryogenically cooled laser microresonator frequency comb. The ring-shaped microresonator, small enough to fit on…
Credit: © ChipScope For half a millennium, people have tried to enhance human vision by technical means. While the human eye is capable of recognizing…
Credit: American Technion Society The beautiful phenomenon allows for new and exciting research opportunities in the fields of Optics and Optofluidics A team of researchers…
An international team of researchers has demonstrated an innovative technique for increasing the intensity of lasers. In a paper that made the cover of the…
The SpooQy-1 CubeSat contains a miniaturized quantum instrument that creates pairs of photons with the quantum property of entanglement. The entanglement is detected in correlations…
Gravitational wave detectors are extremely complex instruments of precision measurement. They use interference as the physical mechanism to measure passing gravitational waves (GWs)—ripples in space-time—from…
Protons accelerated by laser-plasma interaction in a first target (left) pass through a second target, itself irradiated by another laser beam (middle and framed). The…
University of Washington researchers used an infrared laser to cool a solid semiconductor material — labeled here as “cantilever” — by at least 20 degrees…
Trapped Rydberg ions can be the next step towards scaling up quantum computers to sizes where they can be practically usable, a new study in…