Atomic, molecular and optical physics lies at the intersection of quantum mechanics and electromagnetic theory, providing the fundamental framework for our understanding of matter and light.

Ultrathin structures that can bend, focus, or filter light, metasurfaces are reshaping how scientists think about optics.

Researchers in Germany have now directly observed this wobble with the highest precision yet thanks to a large ring laser gyroscope they developed for this purpose. The instrument, which is located in ...

Cornell researchers have built a programmable optical chip that can change the color of light by merging photons, without ...

In new work, scientists from China’s Shandong Normal University and the Australian National University have found a way forward. As reported in Advanced Photonics, they designed a class of ...

Glass nanostructures etched using high-intensity femtosecond laser pulses promise to keep vast quantities of data safe for billions of years, describe Peter Kazansky, Ausra Cerkauskaite and Rokas ...

In Cambridge, Mass, last week, members of the American Physical Society and of the Optical Society of America were given a first look at Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s new spectroscopic ...

Researchers have found a clever way to make quantum dots, tiny light-emitting crystals, produce streams of perfectly controlled photons without relying on expensive, complex electronics. By using a ...

Frenchman Michel H Devoret as well as his longtime American collaborator John M Martinis and the Briton John Clarke were on ...