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Optics & Photonics Apr 25, 2024

Demonstration of heralded three-photon entanglement on a photonic chip

Photonic quantum computers are computational tools that leverage quantum physics and utilize particles of light (i.e., photons) as units of information processing. These computers could eventually outperform conventional ...

Cell & Microbiology Jan 27, 2023

Fish-on-Chips: An optofluidic platform to investigate the neural and chemosensory axes of zebrafish

Neuroscientists study chemosensory processing by establishing chemical cues and the corresponding behavioral responses to record large-scale neuronal activity. In a new report now published in Nature Communications, Samuel ...

Optics & Photonics Jul 8, 2021

The realization of topologically protected valley-dependent quantum photonic chips

The field of topological photonics, specialized in the development of a class of materials known as photonic topological insulators, has advanced considerably over the past few decades. Photonic topological insulators have ...

Nanophysics Oct 5, 2018

On-chip excitation of nanodiamonds embedded in plasmonic waveguides

Quantum emitters can be integrated in monolithic nanoscale plasmonic circuitry via low-loss plasmonic configurations to confine light well below the diffraction limit. In integrated quantum plasmonics, waveguides based on ...

General Physics Jul 15, 2016

Researchers chip away at Smale's 7th unsolved problem in mathematics

(Phys.org)—How do you arrange a group of points on the surface of a sphere so that all the points are as far apart from each other as possible? With two points, the answer is easy: place them on opposite sides of the sphere, ...

Optics & Photonics Feb 19, 2015

Rapidly reconfigurable waveform generator on a CMOS chip could be used for high-speed wireless communication

(Phys.org)—An arbitrary waveform generator can, as its name implies, generate waves of almost any shape by controlling the amplitude, frequency, phase, and other wave characteristics. Waveform generators working in the ...

Optics & Photonics Jan 23, 2015

First-of-its-kind tube laser created for on-chip optical communications

(Phys.org)—Nanophotonics, which takes advantage of the much faster speed of light compared with electrons, could potentially lead to future optical computers that transmit large amounts of data at very high speeds. Working ...

Analytical Chemistry May 17, 2011

Smooth operators: Teflon microfluidic chips

(PhysOrg.com) -- The growing number of research and development efforts focused on microfluidics speaks to the technology’s promise of a potentially broad range of applications, largely in highly-integrated single-chip ...

Optics & Photonics Apr 26, 2011

Through a Sensor, Holographically

(PhysOrg.com) -- The power and resolution of lens-based optical microscopes have improved by orders of magnitude since their invention around 1595. Nevertheless, relying on a high-magnification lens for image clarity has ...

Quantum Physics Sep 3, 2009

First-ever calculation performed on optical quantum computer chip

(PhysOrg.com) -- A primitive quantum computer that uses single particles of light (photons) whizzing through a silicon chip has performed its first mathematical calculation. This is the first time a calculation has been performed ...

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