A team of TU Delft scientists led by Professor Vandersypen seeks to create better and more reliable quantum processors. In a neck-and-neck race with competitors, they showed that quantum information of an electron spin can ...
Nanophysics
Jan 25, 2018
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Working in collaboration with the Lionix company, researchers from the University of Twente's MESA+ research institute have developed the world's most narrowband diode laser on a chip. This laser represents a breakthrough ...
Optics & Photonics
Jul 3, 2017
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Physicists at Bielefeld University and the Arctic University of Norway in Tromsø have developed a photonic chip that makes it possible to carry out super-resolution light microscopy, also called 'nanoscopy,' with conventional ...
Optics & Photonics
Apr 24, 2017
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The Semiconductor Industry Association has estimated that at current rates of increase, computers' energy requirements will exceed the world's total power output by 2040.
Optics & Photonics
Feb 21, 2017
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Advanced photonic nanostructures are well on their way to revolutionising quantum technology for quantum networks based on light. Researchers from the Niels Bohr Institute have now developed the first building blocks needed ...
Quantum Physics
Jan 25, 2017
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From Harry Potter's Cloak of Invisibility to the Romulan cloaking device that rendered their warship invisible in "Star Trek," the magic of invisibility was only the product of science fiction writers and dreamers.
Optics & Photonics
Nov 9, 2016
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There is incredible potential in quantum technology for unbreakable communication and new superfast computers and with a new technological invention quantum technology is storming ahead. Researchers in the research group ...
Quantum Physics
May 30, 2016
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Twenty fifteen was UNESCO's International Year of Light and Light based Technologies. It was a celebration of past milestones in optics and photonics and a look forward into its future.
Optics & Photonics
May 4, 2016
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A new type of ultra-thin semiconductor laser under development at The University of Texas at Arlington can be integrated with mainstream electronics on the same silicon substrate with increased capacity and energy efficiency.
Optics & Photonics
Feb 2, 2016
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Researchers at the Polytechnic Univeristy of Valencia are at the forefront of a revolution in microwave photonics, bringing us the first all-purpose programmable optical chips (currently laboratory scale only).
Optics & Photonics
Jan 28, 2016
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