Researchers from the Monash University School of Physics and Astronomy have flipped a long-held assumption in optics, showing ...

Researchers at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) have reported important progress in quantum physics and materials ...

Researchers from RIT and URochester have developed a new squeezed phonon laser and published their findings in Nature ...

Physicists have engineered light to drift sideways in discrete, quantized steps inside a fiber-optic loop, reproducing a ...

A transportable ytterbium optical lattice clock has been commercially shipped, rapidly recommissioned, and tested against ...

This episode of the Physics World Weekly podcast features Brian Pogue, who is professor of biomedical engineering at ...

Two Americans and a German won the Nobel Prize in physics for optics research that is improving the accuracy of such ...

In the three decades since CERN made Tim Berners-Lee’s World Wide Web freely and openly available to everyone, we’ve got used to exchanging extraordinary amounts of data. One way of keeping up with ...

Ultrathin structures that can bend, focus, or filter light, "metasurfaces" are reshaping how scientists think about optics. These engineered materials offer precise control over light's behavior, but ...