Scientists Discover “Virtual Charges” That Exist Only When Light Hits
High-precision optical components used to manipulate attosecond light pulses. Credit: Politecnico di Milano A study led by Politecnico…
UCLA scientists use light to create energy-efficient generative AI models
Artificial intelligence has dazzled the world with its ability to create pictures, words, and even music from scratch.…
Scientists Capture W State, Unlocking Quantum Teleportation
A 25-year quantum puzzle is solved, bringing teleportation closer to reality. Achieving the entanglement measurement of the W…
Strathclyde Uni joins UK’s first neuromorphic computing hub
The University of Strathclyde is set to bring its neuromorphic photonics expertise to the UK’s first centre for…
All-optical polarization encoding and modulation by nonlinear interferometry at the nanoscale
Neshev, D. N. & Miroshnichenko, A. E. Enabling smart vision with metasurfaces. Nat. Photonics 17, 26–35 (2023). Article …
Hollow glass fiber transmits internet with 1,000x greater capacity
The next internet revolution may come through a hollow strand of glass. Instead of the solid glass cores…
A Simple Shift in Light Control Could Revolutionize Quantum Computing
The new approach uses a purely optical technique called stimulated two-photon excitation to generate streams of photons in…
A single-photon source based on topological bulk cavity
Design of single-photon source based on topological bulk state Figure 1 provides a detailed illustration of the design…
Scientists Build Scalable Network Node With Light and Ions
One by one, each ion-qubit is moved into an optical cavity, where mirrors efficiently collect the photons emitted…
Ultrabroadband air-dielectric double-chirped mirrors for laser frequency combs
Design of pump-DUT dimension and measurement procedure As shown in Fig. 2a in the main text, broadband illumination…
Achromatic beam deflector with electrodynamic phased arrays
Chromatic aberration in the beam deflector and its compensation Beam steering with LC leverages its anisotropic characteristics to…
Photonic Computing: Lightmatter Reports 16-Wavelength Bidirectional Link on Single-Mode Optical Fiber
With the rise of complex trillion-parameter Mixture of Experts (MoE) models, scaling AI workloads is increasingly bottlenecked by…