Author: Ben Michaels

INRS university researchers have achieved a breakthrough in a light-weight photonic system created using on-chip devices and off-the-shelf telecommunications components.  Previous advances in established technologies for the telecommunications sector were targeted for the manipulation of classical signals. This research is a game-changer in that is can be applied and immediately  enable fundamental investigations of high-dimensional quantum state characteristics, applications in large-alphabet fibre-based quantum communications, and the future development of frequency-domain, high-dimensional quantum logic gates and other applications.   In the very near future, researchers around the world will be able to incorporate and move this technology forward, enabling a leap...

A group of physicists at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s Extreme Light Laboratory announced Monday that they have created the brightest light ever produced on Earth.   An ultra-high-intensity laser system, DIOCLES, was built at UNL to study the interactions of light with matter at the highest attainable field strengths, and has produced the most intense light ever made on Earth – one billion times brighter than the surface of the sun. The findings  published in the journal Nature Photonics, revealed that the focused beam essentially knocks the electrons out of their usual alignment, scattering light in a fundamentally different way....