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Dynamic 3D displays: Rare-earth glasses offer vivid, tunable colors
The limitations of two-dimensional (2D) displays in representing the depth of the three-dimensional (3D) world have prompted researchers to explore alternatives that offer a more immersive experience. Volumetric displays ...
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Laser-based device can scan almost any sample of gas and tell you what's in it
Expert sommeliers can take a whiff of a glass of wine and tell you a lot about what's in your pinot noir or cabernet sauvignon. A team of physicists at CU Boulder and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) ...
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Researchers develop first room temperature holmium-doped yttrium lithium fluoride thin disk laser
In a study published in Optics Express, a research group led by Prof. Fu Yuxi from Xi'an Institute of Optics and Precision Mechanics (XIOPM) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has developed the first room temperature holmium-doped ...
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Feb 18, 2025
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Palm-sized single-shot full-color incoherent digital holographic camera system with white light
In a recent study, researchers developed a portable digital holographic camera system that can obtain full-color digital holograms of objects illuminated with spatially and temporally incoherent light in a single exposure. ...
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Feb 18, 2025
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Scalable way to generate and control sound in silicon photonic chips
Researchers at the University of Twente have solved a long-standing problem: trapping optically-generated sound waves in a standard silicon photonic chip. This discovery, published as a featured article in APL Photonics, ...
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Feb 18, 2025
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New X-ray experiment could solve major physics puzzles
Researchers have announced results from a new search at the European X-ray Free Electron Laser (European XFEL) Facility at Hamburg for a hypothetical particle that may make up the dark matter of the universe. The experiment ...
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Feb 18, 2025
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Quantum-inspired advancement turns crystal gaps into terabyte storage for classical memory
From punch card-operated looms in the 1800s to modern cellphones, if an object has an "on" and an "off" state, it can be used to store information.
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Feb 14, 2025
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A novel technique for identifying magnetic ordering in antiferromagnets
A new trick for illuminating the internal ordering within a special type of magnet could help engineers build better memory-storage devices. Developed by RIKEN physicists, this technique could make memory devices less corruptible.
Condensed Matter
Feb 14, 2025
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Simulations reveal Anderson transition for light in 3D disordered systems
The Anderson transition is a phase transition that occurs in disordered systems, which entails a shift from a diffusive state (i.e., in which waves or particles are spread out) to a localized state, in which they are trapped ...

Greetings from the fourth dimension: Scientists glimpse 4D crystal structure using surface wave patterns
In April 1982, Prof. Dan Shechtman of the Technion–Israel Institute of Technology made the discovery that would later earn him the 2011 Nobel Prize in Chemistry: the quasiperiodic crystal. According to diffraction measurements ...
Condensed Matter
Feb 13, 2025
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Fabrication method advances high-performance photon detector technology
From high-speed communication to quantum computing and sensing, the detection, transmission, and manipulation of light (photons) have transformed modern electronics. Central to these systems are photon detectors, which detect ...
Optics & Photonics
Feb 13, 2025
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'Water tweezers': New technique generates topological structures with gravity water waves
A team of physicists at Fudan University, working with colleagues from Henan University, both in China, and from Nanyang Technological University, in Singapore and Donostia International Physics Center, in Spain, has developed ...

Measuring invisible light waves via electro-optic cavities
Researchers have developed a novel experimental platform to measure the electric fields of light trapped between two mirrors with a sub-cycle precision.
Optics & Photonics
Feb 13, 2025
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Q&A: Quantum state of photoelectrons measured for the first time
For the first time, researchers have been able to measure the quantum state of electrons ejected from atoms that have absorbed high-energy light pulses. This is thanks to a new measurement technique developed by researchers ...
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Feb 12, 2025
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Atomic arrays enable negative refraction, bypassing metamaterial limitations
For the first time, scientists have demonstrated that negative refraction can be achieved using atomic arrays—without the need for artificially manufactured metamaterials.
Optics & Photonics
Feb 12, 2025
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Researchers provide mathematical solutions to study 2D light interaction in photonic crystal lasers
Laser diodes are semiconductors that generate light and amplify it using repeated reflection or "optical feedback." Once the light has achieved desirable optical gain, laser diodes release it as powerful laser beams.
Optics & Photonics
Feb 11, 2025
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Exploiting photon colors for a high-performance quantum internet
Data security on the internet is under threat: in the future, quantum computers could decode even encrypted files sent over the internet in no time. Researchers worldwide are, therefore, experimenting with quantum networks ...
Optics & Photonics
Feb 11, 2025
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Innovative target design leads to surprising discovery in laser-plasma acceleration
Scientists have developed a method for generating fast, bright proton beams using a high-repetition-rate laser-plasma accelerator. This work, published in Nature Communications, resolves several long-standing challenges and ...
Optics & Photonics
Feb 11, 2025
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Physicists achieve fully optical readout of superconducting qubits
Qubits—the fundamental units of quantum information—drive entire tech sectors. Among them, superconducting qubits could be instrumental in building a large-scale quantum computer, but they rely on electrical signals and ...
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Feb 11, 2025
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A promising technique to steer laser-produced THz radiation in air
Terahertz radiation (THz), electromagnetic radiation with frequencies ranging from 0.1 and 10 THz, is central to the functioning of various technologies, including imaging, sensing and spectroscopy tools. While THz radiation ...
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