A glass bead and a green laser helps scientists observe lightning form in real time
A single green laser, a glass bead smaller than a bacterium and a lab in Austria are helping…
Triplets electrically turn on insulating lanthanide-doped nanoparticles
LnNPs consist of an inorganic insulating host, typically fluorides or oxides such as NaGd/Y/LuF4 with a large energy…
Kinetically-controlled intermediate-direct-pinning for homogeneous energy landscapes in quasi-two-dimensional perovskites for efficient and narrow blue emission
Anchoring-assisted intermediate direct pinning process The broad phase distribution of quasi-2D perovskites is mainly attributed to the rapid…
Fano interference of photon pairs from a metasurface
Materials with zinc-blende crystalline structure, such as GaAs, AlGaAs, GaP, InGaP, etc, are particularly attractive for non-linear wave…
Physicists Shatter Quantum Computing Record
In a Caltech lab, a computer screen showed thousands of tiny points of light—each one a single atom,…
Scientists Discover “Virtual Charges” That Exist Only When Light Hits
High-precision optical components used to manipulate attosecond light pulses. Credit: Politecnico di Milano A study led by Politecnico…
All-optical polarization encoding and modulation by nonlinear interferometry at the nanoscale
Neshev, D. N. & Miroshnichenko, A. E. Enabling smart vision with metasurfaces. Nat. Photonics 17, 26–35 (2023). Article …
Peacock Feathers Emitting Laser Light Explained
Anthony Fiorito, a senior engineering physics major at Florida Polytechnic University, was published as first author of a…
Spin-orbit coupling in van der Waals materials for optical vortex generation
Figure 1a schematically illustrates the creation of optical vortices via spin-orbit coupling in the hBN crystal. As shown…
Peacock Feathers Can Turn Into Biological Lasers and Scientists Are Amazed
Credit: Pixabay. On a microscopic scale, the extravagant eyespots of a peacock’s tail are built like optical machines…