Light technology is at the heart of many cutting-edge innovations, from high-speed internet to advanced medical imaging. However, transmitting light through challenging environments, such as turbulent ...

Anyone familiar with optics labs is familiar with the extremes of light coherence: laser beams are highly coherent, producing clear interference patterns used for precise applications like atomic ...

Dr. Pravir Malik is the founder and technologist of QIQuantum and the Forbes Technology Council group leader for Quantum Computing. When Tony Hsieh and the Zappos leadership team asked me to scale up ...

We say a message is incoherent when we can't make it out, or when it doesn't make sense. A scribbled note, a drunken argument ...

Coherent-light communication systems appear significantly closer to realization with news of a cw infrared maser developed at Bell Telephone Laboratories, Murray Hill, N.J. The device, employing a ...

Researchers from Skoltech, the University of Warsaw, and the University of Iceland have demonstrated that by optical means it is possible to excite and stir an exciton-polariton condensate, which ...

Researchers from the University of Oxford, UK, along with collaborators from the universities of Münster, Heidelberg, and Ghent, contend that replacing lasers with less complex light sources can ...

Scientists working at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory have created the shortest, purest X-ray laser pulses ever achieved, fulfilling a 45-year-old prediction ...