Ultraviolet light has always sat at the edge of human perception, powerful yet invisible, more associated with sterilizing ...

Liquids and solutions may seem simple, but at the molecular level they are constantly in motion. When sugar dissolves in water, for example, each ...

Scientists have found a way to see ultrafast molecular interactions inside liquids using an extreme laser technique once ...

Optical computing has emerged as a powerful approach for high-speed and energy-efficient information processing. Diffractive ...

Light that twists as it travels and materials whose internal order is knotted like a pretzel are starting to collide in the ...

You are watching a long-standing assumption in physics and engineering quietly fall apart. Researchers at Northwestern ...

For the first time, scientists have observed the iconic Shapiro steps, a staircase-like quantum effect, in ultracold atoms.

In January, a team led by Jim Schuck, professor of mechanical engineering at Columbia Engineering, developed a method for creating entangled photon pairs, a critical component of emerging quantum ...

Researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) have developed an optical computing framework that performs large-scale nonlinear computations using linear materials. Reported in ...

Non-linear optical technologies have significantly advanced the photonics industry and the development of integrated photonic devices, enabling a new wave of innovation. Key areas such as advanced non ...