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Light-bending tech shrinks kilometers-long radiation system to millimeter scale
The DESY accelerator facility in Hamburg, Germany, goes on for miles to host a particle making kilometer-long laps at almost the speed of...
Oct 28, 20182 min read
Pristine quantum light source created at the edge of silicon chip
The smallest amount of light you can have is one photon, so dim that it’s pretty much invisible to humans. While imperceptible, these...
Oct 5, 20184 min read
'Optical rocket' created with intense laser light
In a recent experiment at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, plasma electrons in the paths of intense laser light pulses were almost...
Sep 14, 20182 min read
Scientists develop new materials that move in response to light
Researchers at Tufts University School of Engineering have developed magnetic elastomeric composites that move in different ways when...
Jul 23, 20183 min read
Carbon nanotube optics provide optical-based quantum cryptography and quantum computing
Researchers at Los Alamos and partners in France and Germany are exploring the enhanced potential of carbon nanotubes as single-photon...
Jul 1, 20182 min read
Squeezing light at the nanoscale
Researchers at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have developed a new technique to squeeze...
Jun 21, 20183 min read
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