photonics
Scientists Are Creating 'Synthetic Dimensions' to Probe Limits of 4D Reality
Synthetic dimensions provide a way to mimic higher dimensions within the confines of four-dimensional spacetime.
Lasers Made of 'Spacetime Wave Packets' Are Breaking the Normal Rules of Light
“Turns out, pretty much everything we know in optics is out of the window.”
Scientists Created the Brightest Fluorescent Material Ever Known
SMILES crystals, made from star-shaped lattices, are a solution to a 150-year old problem in materials science.
Scientists Want to Punch Holes in Clouds With Ultra-Hot Lasers from Space
The satellite laser communication revolution is just around the corner, but it has one especially obstinate foe—overcast weather.
New Nanofibers Detect Motion of Individual Bacteria, Muscle cells
Engineers have built a nanoscale stethoscope, basically.
Physicists Mold Giant Photons Into Custom Shapes
The ability to manipulate photon shapes allows for the tweaking of light-matter interactions.
Self-Assembling Nanoparticles Offer Super-Efficient, Portable Water Desalination
Engineers devise a new way of leveraging plasmonics for fresh water.
NASA Engineers Unveil the First Light-Based Modem for Spacecraft
The palm-sized device could mean big things for moving large amounts of data around the globe at the speed of light.
The Quest To Make Molecules Out of Light
Researchers have created a crucial building block for complex photon-based structures. Good news for quantum computing.
The First Graphene Light Bulb Is Also the 'World's Thinnest' Light Bulb
It's not super-practical (yet), but graphene is now also a light source.