In the increasingly digital world, the demand for faster, more efficient and miniaturized optical devices is ever-growing.

MIT researchers discovered a paradoxical phenomenon in optical physics that could enable a new bioimaging method that's ...

Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers discovered a paradoxical phenomenon in optical physics that could enable a ...

Scientists have created tiny “optical tornadoes” — swirling beams of light that twist like miniature whirlwinds — using a ...

Discovery of superluminal correlations within 2D hexagonal boron nitride could advance super-resolution electron microscopy ...

Described in Nature Communications, is a new class of “disordered mosaic metasurfaces” nanostructured materials that ...

A new generation of specialty optical fibers has been developed by physicists to cope with the challenges of data transfer expected to arise in the future age of quantum computing. A new generation of ...

Glass nanostructures etched using high-intensity femtosecond laser pulses promise to keep vast quantities of data safe for billions of years, describe Peter Kazansky, Ausra Cerkauskaite and Rokas ...

In June, more than 1,200 physicists will present new research at the 56th Annual Meeting of the American Physical Society’s Division of Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics being held in Portland, ...

The researchers want to better understand the fundamental physics of the pencil beam and the mechanisms behind its self ...