Researchers demonstrate that by shaping the spatial and temporal structure of photons, they can engineer customized quantum ...

Quantum optics is a well-established field that spans from fundamental physics to quantum information science. In the coming decade, areas including computation, communication and metrology are all ...

New experiments are pushing our understanding of light and optics to the limit and are also opening up new areas of physics and novel applications. (Picture credit: Photodisc) Optics has always been ...

Fiber optic technology is the holy grail of high-speed, long-distance telecommunications. Still, with the continuing exponential growth of internet traffic, researchers are warning of a capacity ...

Damaging effects We now live in an increasingly urban world, with cities expanding into megacities that are inflicting terrible damage to the environment. (Courtesy: iStock/Daniel Stein) The world is ...

Sunlight, moonlight, torchlight, and flashlight... They all come from different places, but they’re the very same thing: light! It’s what makes it possible for us to see the world around us, so it’s ...

FlexEnable, the leader in the development and industrialisation of flexible organic transistors and optics, has won a ...

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This year's Nobel Prize in Physics will be shared by three scientists who created revolutionary technologies decades ago that have changed our world today. Half of the $1.4 million prize will go to a ...

A team of researchers at the Max Born Institute have managed to fully characterize few-femtosecond-long light pulses tunable in the vacuum ultraviolet. These results unlock the possibility for ...

Abu 'Ali Al-Hasan bin Al-Haytham (965-1040 C.E.) was one of the most eminent physicists, whose contributions to optics and scientific methods are outstanding. Known in the West as Alhazen, Ibn ...