Physicists in the US have created an optical frequency comb that operates in the extreme ultraviolet (XUV). Touted as the first practical comb to work in this region of the spectrum, the device could ...
Menlo's optical frequency combs are a core component of optical clocks, such as this one at JILA. (Courtesy: GE Marti/JILA) This year marks the 20th anniversary of the first time an optical-frequency ...
Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences Nature has a way of finding optimal solutions to complex problems. For example, despite the billions of ways for a single protein to ...
Phonons are sound particles or quantized vibrations of atoms in solid materials. The Debye model, a theory introduced by ...
Over the past several decades, researchers have been making rapid progress in harnessing light to enable all sorts of ...
The National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) has successfully demonstrated entanglement swapping (one of the key quantum communication protocols) using sum-frequency ...