Researchers at the University of Illinois have pulled off a laser first: they built a new kind of eye-safe laser that works ...

In a first for the field, researchers from The Grainger College of Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign have reported a ...

For over two decades, physicists have been working toward implementing quantum light storage—also known as quantum memory—in ...

Researchers at the University of Strathclyde have developed a new method for assembling ultra-small, light-controlling ...

A South Korean company has confirmed to GGRAsia that it has supplied forms of radio-frequency identification (RFID) casino ...

Thin-film lithium niobate devices are moving from prototypes to telecom, datacenter, and quantum deployments; consequently, ...

A new hybrid photonic platform enhances fluorescence signals over 450-fold, enabling ultra-sensitive biosensing at attomolar ...

A new silicon material switches from insulator to metal in picoseconds. This breakthrough could speed up future computers.

This can be achieved, for example, by sending a short intense burst of light along a photonic-crystal optical fibre. Supercontinuum generation is used to provide intense sources of white light.

Quantum sensors have become important tools in low-energy particle physics. Michael Doser explores opportunities to exploit ...

Examples of bioinspired materials are light-harvesting photonic materials that mimic photosynthesis, structural composites that imitate the structure of nacre, and metal actuators inspired by the ...