A career in optical physics or engineering means knowing about the behavior and properties of light, including its interactions with matter and its detection by instruments. Since the discovery that ...

A new study has successfully demonstrated the confinement of terahertz (THz) light to nanoscale dimensions using a new type ...

While many plans for quantum computers transmit data using the particles of light known as photons, researchers from the ...

Opaque to transparent: A strong laser illuminating a material in a low-temperature chamber. The laser changes the material's degree of transparency in a reversible way, without heating it. (Courtesy: ...

From left: Cohen, Gopinath, Krueper in the lab. Their paper, “Realistic model of entanglement-enhanced sensing in optical fibers,” was published in Optics Express earlier this year. Research into ...

Govind P. Agrawal, James C. Wyant Professor of Optics and Physics at the University of Rochester, will deliver the Inamori School of Engineering Graduate Seminar on Thursday, Nov. 18, from 10:20 to 11 ...

Roland Winston, SB’56, SM’57, PhD’63—a pioneer in solar energy, engineering, and physics—died Feb. 8 at his home in California. He was 88. Winston was a University of Chicago professor in the ...

Michelle Lollie transitioned from a career in finance to developing quantum optical systems in industry. She talks to Tushna Commissariat about the American Physical Society (APS) Bridge Program; as ...

Bachana Lomsadze received his Bachelor’s degree in physics from Tbilisi State University (Georgia) in 2007 and a Ph.D. in Physics from Kansas State University (KSU) in 2012. At KSU he worked in the ...

Scientists at Tel Aviv University have developed a 'photonic origami' method of producing tiny glass structures.