New hybrid particles let light do computing once limited to electrons
For nearly 80 years, modern computing has depended on electrons rushing through circuits. This same idea powered the…
Scientists Use AI To Supercharge Ultrafast Laser Simulations by More Than 250x
Artistic rendering of noncollinear sum-frequency generation (SFG): two infrared pulses mix in a χ² crystal to produce three…
Scientists Uncover Hidden Property of Light That Twists Matter Sideways
Light is known to exert tiny forces, but measuring them at the nanoscale has remained a major challenge.…
Stretching Diamonds Unlocks Powerful New Quantum Sensing Abilities
Computational modeling reveals how stretching and squeezing a diamond’s crystal lattice precisely tunes the dynamic quantum states of…
Scientists Uncover “Astonishing” Hidden Property of Light
Scientists have discovered that light can naturally develop a hidden “handedness” as it travels through empty space, without…
MIT Laser Breakthrough Lets Scientists Watch Drugs Enter the Brain in Real Time
Under the right conditions, a chaotic mess of laser light can spontaneously self-organize into a highly focused “pencil…
Scientists Overcome Major Quantum Bottleneck, Potentially Transforming Teleportation and Computing
Achieving the entanglement measurement of the W state. Credit: KyotoU / Takeuchi lab A new method reveals hidden…
Topological control of chirality and spin with structured light
Concept of spin-orbit interactions driven by beam topology Before demonstrating how topological structuring enables SOI in paraxial light,…
New imager separates UV and infrared light to find cancerous nodes
Researchers have developed a compact camera that captures ultraviolet, near-infrared and visible images using a single chip. Inspired…
Microscopic sensors could revolutionize diagnosis and monitoring of cancer
Microscopic sensors that are as thin as a strand of hair but capable of taking multiple measurements simultaneously could revolutionize the diagnosis and…
Single-shot, reference-less computational wavefront sensing for complex optical fields
Hardy, J. W. Adaptive Optics for Astronomical Telescopes https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195090192.001.0001 (Oxford University Press, 1998). Wang, K. et al. Direct…
Sub-1-volt, reconfigurable Gires-Tournois resonators for full-coloured monopixel array
Concept of reconfigurable Gires-Tournois monopixels Reflective displays offer a compact and efficient design, leveraging external light without an…