A network of optical cavities could be used to detect gravitational waves (GWs) in an unexplored range of frequencies, according to researchers in the UK. Using technology already within reach, the ...

Ultrathin structures that can bend, focus, or filter light, metasurfaces are reshaping how scientists think about optics.

A team of physicists has captured the Terrell-Penrose effect, showing objects appearing rotated as if moving at 99.9% the ...

Cornell researchers have built a programmable optical chip that can change the color of light by merging photons, without ...

USC engineers have developed an optical system that routes light autonomously using thermodynamic principles. Rather than relying on switches, light organizes itself much like particles in a gas ...

According to Alfred Nobel's will, the Nobel Prize in Physics was to go to "the person who shall have made the most important ...

In new work, scientists from China’s Shandong Normal University and the Australian National University have found a way forward. As reported in Advanced Photonics, they designed a class of ...

Frenchman Michel H Devoret as well as his longtime American collaborator John M Martinis and the Briton John Clarke were on ...

Optical engineering is a field that thrives on precision and creativity. It requires scientists to design systems that push ...

The 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics honours John Clarke, Michel Devoret, and John Martinis for revealing quantum phenomena in ...

Caltech physicists report they have created the largest qubit array assembled to-date: 6,100 neutral-atom qubits trapped in a ...