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Holger Schmidt-Led Researcher Team Develop Optical Device to Reduce Light Speed

Publisher of high-impact scientific and medical information, Nature Photonics has published a study, which reported that a small optical equipment built inside a silicon chip has attained the slowest propagation of light on a chip.

8 Sep 2010

Researchers Develop Quantum Cats from Light

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) researchers have developed quantum cats that are made of particles of light.

7 Sep 2010

Quantum Optics Researcher Establishes New Quantum Info Labs in China

Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) Zhe-Yu "Jeff" Ou, a physics professor and the Chinese government, have established various quantum information laboratories across China.

31 Aug 2010

New Security Technology for Quantum Cryptography Systems

The University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), and the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light have designed and tested a method to exploit flaws in quantum cryptography devices to execute an attack.

31 Aug 2010

Researchers Use Quantum Mechanics for New Materials in Optoelectronics

European researchers have developed new transparent conductive oxides (TCOs), combining computer modelling of precision fabrication processes with quantum mechanics.

30 Aug 2010

Scientists Use Laser Splitter Technique to Create Photon Triplets

Researchers from Austria, Australia and Canada have made a significant breakthrough in the quantum optics research by creating photon triplets directly.

3 Aug 2010

Innsbruck Physicists Observe Quantum Phase Transitions in One Dimensional Quantum Lattice

University of Innsbruck’s physicists have noticed a quantum phenomenon where a randomly weak disturbance makes the atoms to build a systematic structure from a non-systematic one.

3 Aug 2010

Daylight Defense Wins Contract for Quantum Cascade Laser Demonstrator Units

The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory has awarded Daylight Defense a contract to develop QCL (Quantum Cascade Laser) technology based demonstrator units.

30 Jul 2010

Scientists Link Nanoparticles with Semiconductor Quantum Dots to Increase Light Intensity

Scientists from the Brookhaven National Laboratory of the U.S. Department of Energy have exhibited the capability to improve the intensity of light transmitted by individual quantum dots by 20 times.

29 Jul 2010

New Book on Optical Pumping of Atoms

New book from John Wiley and Sons, namely, ‘Optically Pumped Atoms’, covers knowledge on the optical pumping of atoms. The report is supported by several modelling computation examples for optically pumped systems.

16 Jul 2010