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New, Compact Photonic Isolator Uses Sound Waves to Rein in Light

Light offers an irreplaceable way to interact with our universe. It can travel across galactic distances and collide with our atmosphere, creating a shower of particles that tell a story of past astronomical events.

22 Oct 2021

New Insights on Ultrafast Dynamics of Coupled Phonons in Hexagonal Boron Nitride

Materials consisting of a few atomic layers display properties determined by quantum physics. In a stack of such layers, vibrations of the atoms can be triggered by infrared light.

13 Oct 2021

Research Paves the Way for Developments in THz Opto-Electronics, Wireless Communication

Using organic DAST crystals pumped with mid-IR pulses, researchers have created an exceptionally strong terahertz field that can directly drive a large change in transmission of a visible probe pulse in quantum dots.

4 Oct 2021

Recent Advances in Quantum Optics Based on Metasurfaces

This paper summarizes recent works on quantum optics based on micro/nano structures. Since its birth, quantum optics has been full of controversies with the locality and reality of classical physics versus the non-locality and uncertainty of quantum physics.

1 Oct 2021

Research Demonstrates Advancements in Optical Control and Polaritonics

Researchers from Skoltech and the University of Southampton, U.K., used all-optical methods to create an artificial lattice whose nodes house polaritons - quasiparticles that are half-light and half-matter excitations in semiconductors.

1 Oct 2021

Quantum-Dot-Based Infrared Laser Source Operating at Room Temperature for Quantum Communications

Lasers, devices that emit light in one direction, with photons traveling at one specific frequency and all with the same phase (coherent), govern the way we communicate today.

30 Sep 2021

Error-Protected Qubits in Photonic Chip is Key to Delivering Quantum Computers

A team of researchers from Bristol's Quantum Engineering and Technology Labs has shown how to protect qubits from errors using photons in a silicon chip.

30 Sep 2021

Ultrathin QLEDs can be Folded into Complex 3D Structures

Quantum dot light-emitting diode, which employs quantum dots as a light-emitting material, has attracted significant attention as a promising alternative for next-generation display technologies, owing to its outstanding electroluminescence properties.

28 Sep 2021

New Fully Connected Entanglement-Based QSDC Network with 15 Users

Quantum communication has presented a revolutionary step in secure communication due to its high security of the quantum information, and many communication protocols have been proposed, such as the quantum secure direct communication protocol.

24 Sep 2021

Extremely Energy-Efficient Optical Switch Could Replace Electronic Transistors in New Generation of Computers

An international research team led by Skoltech and IBM has created an extremely energy-efficient optical switch that could replace electronic transistors in a new generation of computers manipulating photons rather than electrons.

23 Sep 2021