A team of physicists has uncovered a hidden topological structure within one of the most widely used sources of quantum entanglement.

A single flat metalens now handles both excitation and fluorescence collection for diamond quantum sensors, enabling ...

Physicists and chemists at Heidelberg University have realized a photonic microchip that is driven by light just as easily as ...

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In this Physics World Focus on Optics & Photonics you’ll find an interview with the healthcare photonics lead at the UK’s Centre for Process Innovation, and a report on a pan-European effort to ...

Photonics and optoelectronics are branches of science and technology that deal with the generation, manipulation, and detection of light (photons). While photonics focuses on the fundamental ...

Mini-MOT: A new miniaturized optical system for laser cooling atoms in a magneto-optical trap, or MOT. (Courtesy: NIST) The magneto-optical trap, or MOT, is the workhorse of cold-atom physics. Without ...

Scientists at the X-ray free-electron laser SwissFEL have realized a long-pursued experimental goal in physics: to show how electrons dance together. The technique, known as X-ray four-wave mixing, ...

Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is an imaging technology that can non-invasively generate cross-sectional images of tissue. OCT is widely used in eye clinics to diagnose and manage retinal diseases ...

Geometric optics is a confusing subject for many physics students, who often first encounter the subject in introductory college physics classes. Traditional instruction in geometric optics is not as ...