Researchers from the Monash University School of Physics and Astronomy have flipped a long-held assumption in optics, showing ...

A powerful new microscopy technique unveils hidden nanoscale light interactions, offering a glimpse into physics that ...

Researchers at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) have reported important progress in quantum physics and materials ...

Researchers generated stable vortex light in its lowest-energy state using liquid crystal traps and optical confinement.

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, ...

NTT Research, Inc., a division of NTT, today announced Dr. Tetsuomi Sogawa as the new director of its Physics & Informatics (PHI) Lab.

A team of physicists has done something that sounds impossible: they filmed points of absolute darkness racing through a beam ...

A transportable ytterbium optical lattice clock has been commercially shipped, rapidly recommissioned, and tested against ...

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 ...

In June, more than 1,200 physicists will present new research at the 56th Annual Meeting of the American Physical Society’s Division of Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics being held in Portland, ...

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 ...