Scientists break telecom wavelength barrier that previously blocked long distance quantum communication over existing optical ...

A new generation of specialty optical fibers has been developed by physicists at the University of Bath in the UK to cope with the challenges of data transfer expected to arise in the future age of ...

Physicists have engineered light to drift sideways in discrete, quantized steps inside a fiber-optic loop, reproducing a signature behavior of the quantum Hall effect without electrons, magnetic ...

Quantum dot–based time-bin QKD achieves stable, long-distance secure communication with practical performance.

Superconducting qubits—bits of quantum information—have been widely considered a promising technology for moving quantum computing forward. But there's still much work to be done before they can be ...

You can thank fiber optics for all these conveniences and more. And while you’re at it, wish the fiber a happy 60th birthday ...

Fiber-optic communication, the use of lasers, and solar energy are the fields that utilize discoveries made by Zhores Alferov ...

Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers discovered a paradoxical phenomenon in optical physics that could enable a ...

Lensless multi-core fiber endoscopes suffer from honeycomb-like artifacts that obscure fine structures. To overcome this, ...

In the age of information, data processing and computation are essential. But current computation devices lack scalability and suffer from high carbon emissions. So researchers are constantly looking ...

A new generation of specialty optical fibers has been developed by physicists to cope with the challenges of data transfer expected to arise in the future age of quantum computing. A new generation of ...