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

A new light-based breakthrough could help quantum computers finally scale up. Stanford researchers created miniature optical cavities that efficiently collect light from individual atoms, allowing ...

Dark matter is a mysterious type of matter that does not emit, absorb, or reflect light, yet is predicted to account for most ...

A light has emerged at the end of the tunnel in the long pursuit of developing quantum computers, which are expected to ...

The research demonstrates a practical method for overcoming a long standing bottleneck in quantum computing, bringing closer ...

A new way of capturing light from atoms could finally unlock ultra-powerful, million-qubit quantum computers. After decades of effort, researchers may finally be closing in on a practical path toward ...

Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter (MPSD) have theoretically demonstrated that photons trapped inside an optical cavity carry detailed information about a ...

A misalignment-tolerant multi-pass optical cavity boosts weak Raman signals, doubling path length and enabling stable, ...

Helium-neon lasers may be little more than glorified neon signs, but there’s just something about that glowing glass tube that makes the whole process of stimulated emission easier to understand. But ...

Optical cavities form the cornerstone of high-precision laser frequency stabilisation by confining light between mirrors to produce well-defined resonant modes. In these systems, the stability of the ...