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Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics Develops Measuring System for Infrared Light

Those who want to explore the microcosm need exact control over laser light. Only with its help is it possible to explore electron motion and to influence their behavior.

20 Jan 2016

NIST Researchers Achieve More Precise Detection of Individual Particles of Light

Detecting individual particles of light just got a bit more precise--by 74 picoseconds to be exact--thanks to advances in materials by National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) researchers and their colleagues in fabricating superconducting nanowires.

6 Jan 2016

QD Vision’s Color IQ Quantum Dot Optic Named CES 2016 Innovation Awards Honoree

QD Vision has been named a CES 2016 Innovation Awards Honoree for its Color IQ™ quantum dot optic, which expands the color gamut for edge-lit displays such as TVs, LCD monitors and all-in-one computers. The Color IQ optic is the most affordable way of delivering quantum dots to a display.

5 Jan 2016

MPQ Scientists Successfully Observe ‘Pauli Blocking’ Between Fermionic Lithium Atoms

Today, quantum optical experiments provide methods to prove the rules that have been thought of and pressed into elegant mathematical equations in those days.

5 Jan 2016

Electro-Optic Modulators Harnessed for High-Speed, Accurate Molecular Sensing

Electro-optic modulators, which can switch light on and off within just picoseconds, are enabling ever faster telecommunication over optical glass fibres, so that large movies can be streamed more smoothly across oceans into our homes.

24 Dec 2015

Peter Zoller Honored with 2016 Herbert Walther Award

The Optical Society (OSA) and the Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft (DPG) announced that the 2016 Herbert Walther Award will be presented to Peter Zoller, Institute for Theoretical Physics, Universität Innsbruck, Austria, for his pioneering discoveries and development of new interdisciplinary quantum science that unifies quantum optics, atomic, molecular, optical and condensed matter which have opened new paths toward future applications in quantum technology.

9 Dec 2015

MPQ Scientist Awarded ERC Starting Grant for Study on Rydberg Dressed Quantum Many-Body Systems

Dr. Christian Groß, a young research scientist working in the Quantum Many-Body Systems Division of Professor Immanuel Bloch at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics (Garching near Munich), has been selected by the European Research Council as one of the recipients of an ERC Starting Grant for the year 2015.

30 Nov 2015

Researchers Successfully ‘Pluck’ a Single Photon out of a Pulse of Light

At the Weizmann Institute of Science, researchers have managed to “pluck” a single photon – one particle of light – out of a pulse of light. The findings of this research, which appeared this week in Nature Photonics, bear both fundamental and practical significance: Light is the workhorse of today’s communication systems, and single photons are likely to be the backbone of future quantum communication systems. In addition, say the scientists, the apparatus they have devised will spur further research into the fundamental particle nature of light.

26 Nov 2015

3D Printer and Off-the-Shelf Parts Help Build Self-Aligning Mirror Mechanism for ITER

At the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, the spirit of tinkering lives. This past summer a team of engineers invented a mechanical device designed to be installed on ITER, the multinational fusion machine being built in the south of France, using 3D printing and parts bought at Walmart.

25 Nov 2015

Radially Polarized Laser Beam Can Track Speeding Particles

It might be easier to track tiny particles in the future – even when they hurtle along with the speed of a rifle bullet. This is thanks to researchers working with Christoph Marquardt and Gerd Leuchs at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light, who have discovered that these particles can be tracked with a radially polarized laser beam. In radially polarized light, the oscillation planes of the light waves arrange themselves like the spokes of a wheel. When the researchers cause a particle to fly through such a laser beam, they are able to determine its position several billion times per second by measuring the polarization of the beam.

24 Nov 2015

Quantum Optics News

Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics Develops Measuring System for Infrared Light

NIST Researchers Achieve More Precise Detection of Individual Particles of Light

QD Vision’s Color IQ Quantum Dot Optic Named CES 2016 Innovation Awards Honoree

MPQ Scientists Successfully Observe ‘Pauli Blocking’ Between Fermionic Lithium Atoms

Electro-Optic Modulators Harnessed for High-Speed, Accurate Molecular Sensing

Peter Zoller Honored with 2016 Herbert Walther Award

MPQ Scientist Awarded ERC Starting Grant for Study on Rydberg Dressed Quantum Many-Body Systems

Researchers Successfully ‘Pluck’ a Single Photon out of a Pulse of Light

3D Printer and Off-the-Shelf Parts Help Build Self-Aligning Mirror Mechanism for ITER

Radially Polarized Laser Beam Can Track Speeding Particles

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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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

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Modified Newtonian Dynamics and the Search for a Ninth Planet

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