When optical materials (molecules or solid-state semiconductors) are embedded in tiny photonic boxes, known as optical ...

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In the three decades since CERN made Tim Berners-Lee’s World Wide Web freely and openly available to everyone, we’ve got used to exchanging extraordinary amounts of data. One way of keeping up with ...

Materials scientists can learn a lot about a sample material by shooting lasers at it. With nonlinear optical microscopy—a ...

Researchers from Shandong Normal University and the Australian National University have developed a new class of metasurfaces ...

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

Konstantin Vodopyanov, a professor at the College of Sciences and CREOL, the College of Optics and Photonics, recently co-authored a study published in the journal Optica. This research examines ...

Researchers in Germany have now directly observed this wobble with the highest precision yet thanks to a large ring laser ...

Fiber optic technology is the holy grail of high-speed, long-distance telecommunications. Still, with the continuing exponential growth of internet traffic, researchers are warning of a capacity ...