Instantly turning a material from opaque to transparent, or from a conductor to an insulator, is no longer the stuff of ...

Mario Paniccia, Intel fellow and director of Intel's Photonics Technology Lab, talks to Nature Photonics about the company's progress in commercializing high-speed silicon photonics. We have been ...

Photonics researchers from Tampere University, Finland, and Kastler-Brossel Laboratory, France, have demonstrated how self-imaging of light, a phenomenon known for nearly two centuries, can be ...

For decades, scientists have relied on electrodes and dyes to track the electrical activity of living cells. Now, engineers ...

Optical atomic clocks have the potential to improve timekeeping and GPS accuracy by a factor of 1,000, enhancing the ...

Photonics involves the control of photons in ... Furthermore, the one-dimensional (1D) nature of nanowires permits materials synthesis in traditionally inaccessible compositional regions, which ...

A new EMBL innovation dramatically improves Brillouin microscopy, enabling faster, more efficient 3D imaging of ...

Researchers have developed a new optical computing material from photon avalanching nanoparticles. A research team co-led by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), Columbia University, ...

Research on photon avalanching nanoparticles shows intrinsic optical bistability, offering new avenues for nanoscale optical ...