THOMSON 1 has suggested that a photon is a finite ... centres would travel along a straight line with the velocity of light. If a set of electromagnetic waves of the kind suggested could exist ...

The detection of light at the single-photon level is important for tasks ranging from fluorescence imaging to quantum information processing, reports Neil Savage. High-sensitivity detectors that ...

Using ESA's XMM-Newton satellite, Italian astronomers have observed a Galactic X-ray binary system known as 4U 0728-25.

Silicon photonics revolutionizes data transmission with faster, more efficient lasers integrated on silicon wafers.

Applied physicists at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have created a photon ...

Optics and brain and cognitive science researchers aim to see if neurons can transport light like fiber-optic communications channels.Neurons, the ...

A photon is what you call light when it's behaving ... Lacking scientific instruments, they could probe the nature of light only with their inventive minds. "Light is the activity of what is ...

Quantum communication requires networks of quantum processors connected through low-loss, low-noise channels to share ...

A quantum state of light was successfully teleported through more than 30 kilometers (around 18 miles) of fiber optic cable ...

"Firstly, we use laser light to cool atoms to temperatures ... Cooper et al, Graph states of atomic ensembles engineered by photon-mediated entanglement, Nature Physics (2024).