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Nanoscale device simultaneously steers and shifts frequency of optical light, pointing the way to future wireless communication channels
It is a scene many of us are familiar with: You're working on your laptop at the local coffee shop with maybe a half dozen other laptop...
Jul 29, 20244 min read
Perturbations simplify the study of “super photons”
Thousands of particles of light can merge into a type of “super photon” under suitable conditions. Physicists call such a state a photon...
Jun 10, 20243 min read
Observing ultrafast photoinduced dynamics in a halogen-bonded supramolecular system
Halogen bonds are intermolecular interactions that arise from the attraction between a halogen atom (group 17 elements in the periodic...
Jun 6, 20243 min read
The thinnest lens on Earth is 0.6 nanometres thick
Lenses are used to bend and focus light. Normal lenses rely on their curved shape to achieve this effect, but physicists from the...
Jun 3, 20243 min read
Quantum geometry offers new insights into 2D ferroelectricity
Quantum theorists at UBC’s Blusson Quantum Matter Institute have proposed a new approach to studying stacking ferroelectricity—spontaneou...
May 17, 20243 min read
Smaller than a grain of sand—silica glass sensors 3D-printed on optical fiber
In a first for communications, researchers in Sweden 3D printed silica glass micro-optics on the tips of optic fibers—surfaces as small...
May 17, 20242 min read
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