Caltech scientists have developed a way to guide light on silicon wafers with low signal loss approaching that of optical ...

You can tell a lot about a material based on the type of light shining at it: Optical light illuminates a material's surface, ...

Researchers from Regensburg and Birmingham have overcome a fundamental limitation of optical microscopy. With the help of ...

Very-long baseline interferometry (VLBI) is a technique in radio astronomy whereby multiple radio telescopes cooperate to ...

Transmission electron microscopes (TEMs) have been advancing our knowledge of the very small for nearly 100 years. Since their advent, they have helped scientists see structures as small as individual ...

Stanford physicists have engineered a sophisticated optical cavity capable of harvesting single photons from individual atoms ...