New experiments are pushing our understanding of light and optics to the limit and are also opening up new areas of physics and novel applications. (Picture credit: Photodisc) Optics has always been ...

Optics meets 2D materials: a simple probe light beam exiting an optical moiré lattice can be chopped up into diffuse streaks or confined into a single bright spot, depending on the twist angle in the ...

Classical physics theories suggest that when two or more electromagnetic waves interfere destructively (i.e., with their electric fields canceling each other out), they cannot interact with matter ...

Quantum optics describes how discrete units of light, or photons, and matter interact on small scales. The subfield of physics grew from quantum mechanics and came into its own with advances in laser ...

In Bethel’s applied physics major with an optics emphasis, you’ll become equipped with specialized knowledge and skills in the field of optics, preparing them for careers in technology, research, and ...

A new path for electron optics in solid-state systems Date: July 14, 2020 Source: ETH Zurich Department of Physics Summary: In combined theoretical and experimental work, physicists introduce and ...

Based on a series of experiments in the quantum optics laboratories, they examined the state of light. In classical physics, light possesses both an electric and a magnetic field.

The 2012 Nobel Prize in physics went to French physicist Serge Haroche and American physicist David Wineland for their work on quantum optics, which has probed the relationship between light and ...

The 2023 Nobel Prize in physics has been awarded to a team of scientists who created a ground-breaking technique using lasers to understand the extremely rapid movements of electrons, which were ...

New quantum optics theory proposes that classical interference arises from bright and dark states of light by Ingrid Fadelli, Phys.org ...