US researchers say they have built a laser system precise and powerful enough to control vast grids of atoms, a step they ...

Neutral-atom arrays utilize atoms trapped in place by tightly focused laser beams known as optical tweezers in 1D, 2D, or 3D ...

Scientists have demonstrated a sort of holographic strip that splits a single laser beam into five bespoke beams that create an optical knot. The work shows that optical knots could be used as a ...

A device smaller than a grain of dust may help unlock the kind of quantum computers people have only dreamed about. Built on ...

LightSolver, creator of a new laser-based computing paradigm, announced a breakthrough in quantum-inspired high-performance computing. Its LPU100 system unleashes the power of 100 lasers to solve the ...

Plasmonic structures exhibit a wide range of physical characteristics, which are benefited by the localized and intensified light–matter interaction. There have been many recent advancements with ...

Researchers have pushed the limits of the possible in the field of atomic-scale spin-optics, creating a spin-optical laser from monolayer-integrated spin-valley microcavities without requiring ...

Tunable lasers for fiber-optic communications may help reduce the amount of gear that telecommunications companies and their equipment makers have to worry about. Michael Kanellos is editor at large ...

PORTLAND, Ore. Photonic microchips were enabled Sunday (Feb. 15) by Cornell University's announcement at the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Seattle, of having fabricated ...