Every new generation of phone display, television screen and solar panel is the result of precision optics experiments, which use lasers and other light sources to measure the optical properties of ...

This opens the door to a new way of doing science, one in which humans are not the sole architects of experimentation. Artificial intelligence has begun to tackle a task once thought to be uniquely ...

A new method developed at the University of Bonn simplifies ultra-precise adjustment for quantum optics experiments. When individual atoms interact with each other, they often exhibit unusual behavior ...

Quantum entanglement experiments hinge on two things: the optics chain, which sets the quality of the entangled state, and the single-photon detectors, which define how reliably you can measure it.

Since the early 20th century physicists have known that light carries momentum, but the way that this momentum changes as light passes through different media is much less clear. Two rival theories of ...

Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have developed a robotic laboratory that can build, align and run optics experiments on its own. The system can pick up lenses and mirrors ...

Who’s who: The quantum Alice in Wonderland would like to understand whether the many “Twindeldum-Twindeldees” she sees are really identical or not, and uses the new interferometer for this purpose.

Since it was first demonstrated in the 1960s, spontaneous parametric down-conversion (SPDC) has been at the center of many quantum optics experiments that test the fundamental laws of physics in ...

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.. 12 June 2009. The Newport Corp. Spectra-Physics Lasers Division in Mountain View, Calif., is introducing an ultrafast laser amplifier system with optimized dual outputs for ...

Tweedledum and Tweedledee-dee-dee. Being identical is a valuable attribute for photons used in quantum optics experiments. A new device can assess the indistinguishability of multiple photons—whereas ...