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Research Team Demonstrates Integrated Emitter Arrays of Optical Vortices on Silicon Chip

An international research group led by scientists from the University of Bristol and the Universities of Glasgow (UK) and Sun Yat-sen and Fudan in China, have demonstrated integrated arrays of emitters of so call 'optical vortex beams' onto a silicon chip. The work is featured on the cover of the latest issue of Science magazine, published tomorrow [19 October 2012].

19 Oct 2012

Researchers Break Standard Limits for Precision Phase Tracking Using Squeezed Light

A Japanese-Australian collaborative research team has broken down the standard limits for ultra-precise measurement by exploiting quantum light waves in a different way.

24 Sep 2012

Quantum Optics Study Raises Doubt on Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle

Werner Heisenberg's uncertainty principle, one of the fundamentals of quantum mechanics, states that it is not possible to take measurements of anything without causing disturbance to it.

10 Sep 2012

Researchers Observe Quantum Effects in Optomechanical System

Researchers from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) of the U.S. Department of Energy and the University of California (UC) Berkeley have for the first time directly observed distinctly quantum optical phenomena, namely amplification and squeezing, in an optomechanical system.

17 Aug 2012

New Method Reliably Evaluates Information Contained in Photon Pairs

A research team comprising Filippo Miatto and other physicists from the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK, has discovered a new technique to reliably evaluate the information carried by photon pairs utilized for quantum computing and cryptography applications.

13 Jul 2012

New Technique to Create Rewritable Computer Chips Using Laser Light

Scientists from the University of California Berkeley and The City College of New York have achieved a significant progress towards the realization of quantum computing by finding a method to produce rewritable computer chips utilizing a light beam.

28 Jun 2012

Scientists Measure Electron’s Quantum Phase Using Precisely Customized Laser Pulses

Researchers at the Vienna University of Technology are now able to study an electron’s removal from an atom by a powerful laser beam with a time resolution of below 10 as.

16 May 2012

Quantum Models Efficiently Predict Behavior of Complex Systems

Researchers from the University of Bristol have demonstrated that quantum computer may need lesser memory for simulations of reality when compared to a classical computer.

5 May 2012

Researchers Produce Chip to Produce Photons for Optical Computing

In the age of high-speed computing, the photon is king. However, producing the finely tuned particles of light is a complex and time-consuming process, until now.

1 May 2012

Efficient Manufacturing Process for Quantum Dot Production

Students at the University of Utah have won the first place in the regional CU Cleantech New Venture Challenge for their quantum dot technology. Quantum dots are tiny semiconductor nanocrystals that emit photons when excited.

26 Apr 2012