So, for instance, the phase of a light soliton—a type of pulse that doesn't get broader as it propagates—consists of many, many photons that all share a contribution to the quantum state.

(PhysOrg.com) -- Cornell researchers have demonstrated that the passage of a light beam through an optical fiber can be controlled by just a few photons of another light beam.

Letter Published: 28 October 2004 Continuous generation of single photons with controlled waveform in an ion-trap cavity system Matthias Keller, Birgit Lange, Kazuhiro Hayasaka, Wolfgang Lange ...

The fundamental particle of light is both ordinary and full of surprises. What physicists refer to as photons, other people might just call light. As quanta of light, photons are the smallest possible ...

The first direct visualization of the shape of a photon has been created. These particles of light are impossible to photograph, but physicists at the University of Birmingham have now calculated ...

Why do we call photons 'particles'? Aren't they all electromagnetic waves? In the classical theory of electromagnetism, Maxwell’s, there are no photons. There are only continuous electromagnetic ...

Researchers studying biological tissues, including neurons in petri dishes, can detect this as a weak but continuous stream of light—from a few photons to several hundred photons per square ...

These massive particles could shed light on dark matter by revealing how the substance interacts with "normal" matter.

A new method could help scientists shed light on the universe’s most mysterious substance by narrowing down the hunt for a particular dark matter candidate — hidden "dark photons." Dark matter ...

A research team from Canada has discovered that there is a delay between the detection of the two output photons, one that depends on the intensity of the incoming light that impacts the crystal.