Quantum Optics News

RSS

Study by National Physical Laboratory (NPL) and Samsung Institute Offers New Insights on Improving Blue OLED Performance for Displays and Lighting

Scientists at the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) have collaborated with the Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology (SAIT) on a ground-breaking new study to better understand the degradation of blue organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs). The study has been published in the online journal Nature Communications.

16 Feb 2024

Breakthrough in Close-to-Atom Scale Laser Manufacturing

Since the advent of femtosecond laser in the early 1990s, ultrafast laser processing has been considered a promising nanofabrication approach, which is unique in manufacturing hard-processing materials and realizing fine three-dimensional structures.

12 Feb 2024

Bending the Bounds of Light: Physicists Redefine Confinement with New Nanoscopic Cavities

In a significant leap forward for quantum nanophotonics, a team of European and Israeli physicists, introduces a new type of polaritonic cavities and redefines the limits of light confinement.

8 Feb 2024

Exploring the Relationship Between Black Holes and Galaxies

A recent analysis of data from the James Webb Space Telescope suggests that black holes not only existed at the beginning of time but also gave birth to new stars and accelerated the formation of galaxies.

7 Feb 2024

Novel Circuit Enables Compact, High-Performance Single-Photon Detector

Optical time-domain reflectometers, laser ranging, fluorescence measurements, quantum optics experiments, and many other photonics applications can benefit from the sensitivity of single-photon detectors (SPDs).

5 Feb 2024

Optimizing Plasma Reactors for Enhanced Water Decontamination

Two UCO research groups designed a plasma (an ionized gas) reactor maintained by microwaves that make it possible to decontaminate waters with high concentrations of dye.

25 Jan 2024

Using Light to Expose Hidden Characteristics in Materials

Certain materials have desired features that are hidden; scientists can use light to reveal these properties, just like how they would use a flashlight to see in the dark.

25 Jan 2024

It’s Good to Talk: Scientists Report Quantum Networking Breakthrough

Scientists at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh have solved one of the fundamental problems facing quantum networking.

23 Jan 2024

Creating Quantum Superposition States with Optically Levitated Nanoparticles

The recipe for an innovative experiment put forth by theoretical physicists in a recent paper published in Physical Review Letters is to roll through a curved ramp while moving quickly and avoiding light.

11 Jan 2024

Unraveling the Secrets of Shared Quantum Entanglement

In partnership with String Theorist Robert de Mello Koch of Huzhou University in China (formerly from Wits University), researchers from the Structured Light Laboratory (School of Physics) at the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa, under the direction of Professor Andrew Forbes, have shown for the first time that it is possible to perturb pairs of spatially separated yet interconnected quantum entangled particles without changing particles shared properties.

10 Jan 2024