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Light-Harvesting Mechanism of Photosynthetic Algae Revealed Using Ultrafast Lasers

For millions of years, photosynthetic algae have been improving their process for capturing light. This has resulted in algae optimizing powerful light harvesting systems - proteins that absorb light to be converted into energy for the plants - that researchers have long been keen to understand and imitate for renewable energy applications.

19 Dec 2016

Magnetic Mirror Could Help Cosmologists Discover New Details About Ripples in Space-Time

Researchers have created a new magnetic mirror-based device that could one day help cosmologists discover new details about ripples in space-time known as gravitational waves, particularly those emitted when the universe was extremely young.

15 Dec 2016

Review Article Highlights Progress of Research on Quantum Simulations with Light

Back in 2006, theoretical physicist Dimitris Angelakis was among the first to propose that quantum simulations could be done with photons.

24 Nov 2016

Researchers Successfully Fabricate, Manipulate Majorana Zero Modes in Optical Simulator

Majorana fermions was first proposed by physicist Majorana in 1937, referring to the fermions whose antiparticles are identical as themselves.

26 Oct 2016

Scientists Use Quantum Monte Carlo Technique to Explain Photon Absorption, Emission Phenomenon

In 1937, US physicist Isidor Rabi introduced a simple model to describe how atoms emit and absorb particles of light. Until now, this model had still not been completely explained.

24 Oct 2016

Scientists Use Ultrafast Laser Flashes to Generate, Measure Fastest Electric Current

By using ultrafast laser flashes, scientists at Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics generated and measured the fastest electric current inside a solid material.

21 Oct 2016

Breakthrough Research Simplifies Production Process of Narrowband Biphotons

Entangled photon pairs, termed as biphotons, have been the benchmark tool for experimental quantum optics. The quantum-network protocols based on photon-atom interfaces have stimulated a great demand for single photons with bandwidth comparable to or narrower than the atomic natural linewidth.

20 Oct 2016

New Method Can Make Quantum Cascade Lasers Easier to Manufacture

A team of UCF researchers has produced the most efficient quantum cascade laser ever designed - and done it in a way that makes the lasers easier to manufacture.

18 Oct 2016

International Research Team Breaks Rayleigh's Curse

The resolution of an optical system (like a telescope or a camera) is limited by the so-called Rayleigh criterion. An international team, led by Complutense University of Madrid, has broken this limit, showing that it is not a fundamental curse.

17 Oct 2016

Researchers Record Interaction Between Light and Matter 10 Times Larger than Previously Seen

Researchers at the University of Waterloo's Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC) recorded an interaction between light and matter 10 times larger than previously seen. The strength of the interaction between photons and a qubit was so large that it opens the door to a realm of physics and applications unattainable until now.

13 Oct 2016

Quantum Optics News

Light-Harvesting Mechanism of Photosynthetic Algae Revealed Using Ultrafast Lasers

Magnetic Mirror Could Help Cosmologists Discover New Details About Ripples in Space-Time

Review Article Highlights Progress of Research on Quantum Simulations with Light

Researchers Successfully Fabricate, Manipulate Majorana Zero Modes in Optical Simulator

Scientists Use Quantum Monte Carlo Technique to Explain Photon Absorption, Emission Phenomenon

Scientists Use Ultrafast Laser Flashes to Generate, Measure Fastest Electric Current

Breakthrough Research Simplifies Production Process of Narrowband Biphotons

New Method Can Make Quantum Cascade Lasers Easier to Manufacture

International Research Team Breaks Rayleigh's Curse

Researchers Record Interaction Between Light and Matter 10 Times Larger than Previously Seen

Quantum Development in Ireland: A Conversation with John Durcan, Chief Technologist, IDA Ireland

Advancing Quantum Scalability with New Qubit Method

Modified Newtonian Dynamics and the Search for a Ninth Planet

LabOne Q: An Intuitive Software Framework for Scalable Quantum Computing

ORCA-Quest qCMOS Camera by Hamamatsu

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Repeat-Until-Success Algorithm for Quantum Gate Decomposition

Researchers Exploit the Color Centers in Diamond to Enhance Dynamic Nuclear Polarization Processes for NMR Applications

Application of Electro-Optic Phase Modulator in Pound-Drever Hall Technique for Laser Frequency Stabilization

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Quantum Development in Ireland: A Conversation with John Durcan, Chief Technologist, IDA Ireland

Advancing Quantum Scalability with New Qubit Method

Modified Newtonian Dynamics and the Search for a Ninth Planet

1First High-Res Map of Massive Explosion in NGC 4383

2Researchers Achieve Major Advancement in Quantum Technology

3Quantum Linear Solvers for Redundant Baseline Calibration

4Quantum Observer Paradox: Extending Measurement Disturbance

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