Conceptual image of the used method for manipulating the spatial structures of photons using multiple consecutive lossless modulations. Credit: Markus Hiekkamäki / Tampere University Researchers…
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Credit: University of Twente Light that is sent into a ‘photonic crystal’, can’t go deeper than the so-called Bragg length. Deeper inside the crystal, light…
As a laser illuminates these nanometer-scale devices (blue wave), attosecond electron flashes are generated (red pulse) at the ends of nanotips and used to trace…
Integrated silicon nitride photonic chips with meter-long spiral waveguides. Credit: Jijun He, Junqiu Liu (EPFL) Encoding information into light, and transmitting it through optical fibers…
The beam of light passes through a disordered medium and projects the same picture onto the detector that would be detected without the medium. Credit:…
A world-first method to enable quantum optical circuits that use photons—light particles—heralds a new future for secure communication and quantum computing. The modern world is…
Researchers from Louisiana State University have introduced a smart quantum technology for the spatial mode correction of single photons. In a paper featured on the…
The graphic visualizes quantum mechanical interference, also called the Hong-Ou-Mandel effect: A yellow and an orange photon hit a frequency mixer (white bar) from the…
A collaborative study by a team of materials scientists and theoretical chemists demonstrates how a class of electroluminescent materials, key components of devices such as…
The new single-photon source is based on excitation of a quantum dot (shown as a bulge on the bottom left), which then emits photons. A…
Schematic representation of a processor for matrix multiplications which runs on light. Together with an optical frequency comb, the waveguide crossbar array permits highly parallel…
Schematic representation of a processor for matrix multiplications which runs on light. Credit: University of Oxford The exponential growth of data traffic in our digital…
Highly efficient, pure-blue organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) developed by researchers at Kyushu University in Japan are being tested to measure their lifetime. Based on hyperfluorescence,…
A demonstration of how the T-ray equipment can be used to scan an individual’s skin. Credit: University of Warwick Terahertz radiation, or T-rays, can reveal…
Annular holes in a thin gold film filled with silicon dioxide enable ultrastrong coupling between light and atomic vibrations. This structure provides opportunities to probe…
Fiber optics couple laser light directly into the ion-trap chip. When in use, the chip is cooled to cryogenic temperatures in a vacuum chamber, and…
The integrated detector combines a silicon photonic chip with a silicon micro-electronics chip, yielding advanced speed in detecting quantum light. Credit: University of Bristol Researchers…
A scanning electron microscope (SEM) image of a terahertz quantum cascade laser (QCL) device. Credit: Courtesy of the researchers The instrument could bring powerful sensing…
Scientists Capture Light in a Polymeric Quasicrystal – New Possibilities for Laser and Sensor Design
Scientists Capture Light in a Polymeric Quasicrystal – New Possibilities for Laser and Sensor Design
Credit: Ant Rozetsky ITMO University scientists have conducted several experiments to investigate polymeric quasicrystals that ultimately confirmed their initial theory. In the future, the use…
Illustration of memory effects on wave-matter interaction. From Fig. 1, Kozlov et al., doi: 10.1117/1.AP.2.5.056003. Credit: Kozlov et al. Remembrance of Waves Past: Memory Imprints…