Through a combination of high-pressure experiments and optical spectroscopy, physicists have revealed new insights into the ...

A tiny optical booster built directly onto a chip is pointing toward a future where light, not just electricity, does the heavy lifting inside our computers. By cranking up light signals roughly 100 ...

In the experiment, a high-power green laser passed through a ruby cube, illuminated from the side by a blue laser. The green laser increased the ruby’s absorption of the blue light, creating a darker ...

Light does a lot of work in the modern world, enabling all types of information technology, from TVs to satellites to ...

Dark matter is a mysterious type of matter that does not emit, absorb, or reflect light, yet is predicted to account for most ...

A century-old thought experiment on wave–particle duality is brought into the laboratory using a single trapped atom ...

Experiment with contraction triggered by an optical stimulus of a cell (red) in tissues – results shown with force sensors (top) and then what happens when they are genetically turned off (bottom).

U.S. Naval Research Laboratory Optical Sciences Division’s fiber optic computing experiment of encoded data on an optical carrier using the modulator, left, orange housing, and coupled into a 500 ...