Atomic, molecular and optical (AMO) physics explores the quantum behaviour of electrons, atoms and light, and their mutual interactions across energy, length and time scales. In atoms and molecules, ...

BOULDER — Meadowlark Optics Inc., a Frederick photonics firm, recently contributed $70,000 to the University of Colorado’s ...

The research demonstrates a practical method for overcoming a long standing bottleneck in quantum computing, bringing closer ...

Time is almost up on the way we track each second of the day, with optical atomic clocks set to redefine the way the world ...

Physicists have used a new optical centrifuge to control the rotation of molecules suspended in liquid helium nano-droplets, ...

Caltech scientists have developed a way to guide light on silicon wafers with low signal loss approaching that of optical ...

Glass nanostructures etched using high-intensity femtosecond laser pulses promise to keep vast quantities of data safe for billions of years, describe Peter Kazansky, Ausra Cerkauskaite and Rokas ...

Researchers show that precisely layering nano-thin materials creates excitons -- essentially, artificial atoms -- that can act as quantum information bits, or qubits. By taking two flakes of special ...

This has now paved the way for a multi-ion optical ytterbium clock that combines the high accuracy of single-ion clocks with ...

Modern-day communications rely on both fibre-optic cables and wireless radiofrequency (RF) microwave communications. Reaching higher data transmission capabilities is going to require technologies ...

Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is an imaging technology that can non-invasively generate cross-sectional images of tissue. OCT is widely used in eye clinics to diagnose and manage retinal diseases ...