Physicists have taken a step that sounds like science fiction: they have coaxed light into behaving as a “supersolid,” a ...

Quantum engineers have now demonstrated a fully controllable three‑qubit register on a silicon photonic chip, turning a ...

Light can be sculpted into countless shapes. Yet building optical devices that can simultaneously manipulate many different ...

Scientists developed a reconfigurable topological photonic system that steers light in real time using optical pumping, ...

This review examines the role of twisted light in chiral systems, highlighting its applications in spectroscopy and materials ...

SPIE Photonics West sees the global optics and photonics community come together to present and discuss the latest industry ...

Just as nanoplasmonics reveals the fascinating interplay between light and metal nanoparticles, nanophotonics ventures into the broader realm of light manipulation at the nanometer scale. It explores ...

A conceptual image of the distorted photonic crystal and photonic crystal. A collaborative group of researchers has manipulated the behavior of light as if it were under the influence of gravity. The ...

Fig. 1 (a) Schematic of a PM that consists of two nanobeam cavities. (b) Normalized profile of the electric field (Ex at left and Ey at right) for the S and AS mode Polarization is an intrinsic ...

Researchers are developing new photonic materials that could one day help enable low power, ultra-fast, light-based computing. The unique materials, known as topological insulators, are like wires ...