Light was long considered to be a wave, exhibiting the phenomenon of interference in which ripples like those in water waves are generated under specific interactions. Light also bends around corners, ...

If you took introductory physics, you learned about the “fundamental forces.” It goes something like this: All interactions ...

A team of researchers has made an advancement in the field of multifunctional energy harvesting. Their latest study advances ...

Light is closely integrated with our intellectual, philosophical and scientific discourse. The exact nature of light has remained a mystery since we stepped on earth. Newton postulated the corpuscular ...

Scientists have unlocked a way to read magnetic orientation at record-breaking speeds using terahertz radiation. Modern hard ...

With today’s data rates of only a few hundred megabytes per second, access to digital information remains relatively slow.

Feb. 12, 2025 — Researchers have developed a novel experimental platform to measure the electric fields of light trapped between two mirrors with a sub-cycle precision. These electro-optic Fabry ...

The nonlinear susceptibility is a measure of a material's nonlinear response to an applied electric field. It determines the strength of ... and generation of tunable light sources. Crystals such as ...

From integrated photonics to quantum information science, the ability to control light with electric fields—a phenomenon known as the electro-optic effect—supports vital applications such as ...

Advanced imaging techniques have evolved to see beyond the diffraction limit. W. E. Moerner spoke to Nature Photonics about the techniques involved. For near-field optics, super-resolution has ...