In a quantum system of arrayed two-level atoms interacting with light, the interacted (dressed) photon is propagating in a periodic medium and its eigenstate ought to be of Bloch type with lattice ...

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 ...

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 ...

Have you ever wished to drive microscopic matter along an arbitrarily tailored trajectory instead of just a circle? That's exactly what we set out to achieve. The field of photonic force manipulation ...

Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers developed a robotic optics laboratory. This system autonomously assembles and aligns laser cavities with precision. The robot can also correct ...

Researchers at the University of Maryland (UMD) have demonstrated a continuously operating optical fiber made of thin air. The most common optical fibers are strands of glass that tightly confine ...

Newswise — As an important form of optical micromanipulation, optical particle transport utilizes phase gradient forces to drive particles along predefined trajectories. Leveraging its advantages of ...

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.

The bigger the quantum superposition, the bigger the proverbial Schrödinger's cat. (dennisvdw/iStockphoto/Getty Images) ...