Controlling light is an important technological challenge—not just at the large scale of optics in microscopes and telescopes ...

Light has always been the stage on which quantum mechanics performs its strangest tricks, and the double-slit experiment is ...

Scientists are learning to engineer light in rich, multidimensional ways that dramatically increase how much information a ...

Einstein’s claim that the speed of light is constant has survived more than a century of scrutiny—but scientists are still ...

A new chip-based quantum memory uses 3D-printed “light cages” to store light in atomic vapor with high precision. Quantum ...

Scientists have developed a groundbreaking on-chip quantum memory platform using 3D-nanoprinted hollow-core waveguides called ...

Light is usually described using quantum mechanics when phenomena like entanglement enter the picture. But a new paper shows ...

"Dark photon" theory says light's interference patterns may emerge from quantum particles, not waves, upending centuries of physics.

Advancements in quantum imaging are transforming scientific research, offering unprecedented resolution and sensitivity for ...

For years, scientists have imagined a future where secure quantum links circle the planet from space. Satellites would create pairs of entangled photons and send them down to distant stations on Earth ...

Quantum information storage is a cornerstone technology for the emerging quantum internet and quantum computation. While current quantum communication ...