Researchers at the University of Warsaw have unveiled a breakthrough method for detecting and precisely calibrating terahertz ...

In 1986, American physicist Arthur Ashkin developed a fascinating tool that could gently pick and move microscopic objects like cells and molecules without touching them. This tool, called optical ...

Ocean Optics reports on how spectroscopy revolutionizes research by utilizing light to analyze materials, improving accuracy ...

The field of optical atomic clocks, in combination with ultracold atoms, has transformed precision timekeeping and metrology. By utilising laser-cooled atoms confined in optical lattices, researchers ...

A research team has created a quantum antenna capable of precisely measuring terahertz frequency combs for the first time. A research team from the Faculty of Physics and the Centre for Quantum ...

WASHINGTON — Researchers have demonstrated a new optical atomic clock that uses a single laser and doesn’t require cryogenic temperatures. By greatly reducing the size and complexity of atomic clocks ...

Microscopes have long been scientists’ eyes into the unseen, revealing everything from bustling cells to viruses and nanoscale structures. However, even the most powerful optical microscopes have been ...

Researchers at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics (MPQ) have successfully developed a new technique for deciphering the properties of light and matter that can simultaneously detect and ...

Physicists routinely exploit femtosecond light pulses to track the movement of atoms in molecules, and are now developing sources that emit even shorter bursts of X-rays to study and control the ...