Bright idea: this vacuum chamber is home to an optical conveyor belt. (Courtesy: P Windpassinger/Experimental Quantum Optics and Quantum Information Research Group) A ...

Optical fibre communication systems have revolutionised global telecommunications by harnessing light‐based signal transmission through highly engineered glass or plastic fibres. The principle of ...

A nodeless antiresonant fibre. (Courtesy: Gregory T Jasion, Optoelectronics Research Centre, University of Southampton) A new type of hollow-core optical fibre makes light-based gyroscopes up to 500 ...

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 ...

Innovative optical tractor beam technology enables 40-cm pulling of micro-droplets, highlighting the role of photon momentum ...

From left: Cohen, Gopinath, Krueper in the lab. Their paper, “Realistic model of entanglement-enhanced sensing in optical fibers,” was published in Optics Express earlier this year. Research into ...

Atomic, molecular and optical physics lies at the intersection of quantum mechanics and electromagnetic theory, providing the fundamental framework for our understanding of matter and light.

Scientists from the School of Engineering and Physical Sciences, Heriot-Watt University, have created a prototype quantum ...