The experimental demonstration of polariton lasing from an organic optical microcavity is an important step towards the development of practical devices that exploit coupled states of light and matter ...

The optoelectronic properties of topological insulators have many attractions, including a robustness to defects, imperfections and sharp corners. This robustness inspired a group of scientists to ...

Combining photonics and electronics would bring the advantages of speedy optical data transfer to the increasingly miniaturized world of electronics. Ideally photonics and electronics elements would ...

The team's experimental setup: Atoms are cooled and slowed inside a vacuum chamber, until they can be trapped in a lattice inside a cavity (black triangular cavity spacer in the bottom half of the ...

New research shows that lasing for over one hour at room temperature can be achieved from low-cost quasi-2D perovskite materials by properly managing losses caused by triplet excitons. This new ...

A Los Alamos National Laboratory team has overcome key challenges toward technologically viable high-intensity light emitters based on colloidal quantum dot technology, resulting in dual-function ...

When a water droplet interacts with a surface to form a contact angle, the interfacial molecular forces determine the geometry of a droplet resonator. Dramatic mechanical changes at the interface play ...

This study is led by professor Tianrui Zhai (Faculty of Science, Beijing University of Technology). The fiber braiding cavity is designed to achieve the red-green-blue (RGB) whispering gallery mode ...

The innovative advances in ultrafast laser technologies provide new strategies for remote sensing of atmospheric pollutants and hazardous biochemical agents. The high-energy femtosecond laser can ...

The FBI has launched a 90-day nationwide campaign offering rewards of up to $10,000 for information leading to the arrest of people who point lasers at aircraft. The FBI and the Federal Aviation ...

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork)-- While you're sitting in your seat during takeoff or landing, your flight's pilot might be blinded by a laser shining into his or her eyes. As CBS 2's Don Champion reported, ...