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

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

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

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

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 ...