Researchers generated stable vortex light in its lowest-energy state using liquid crystal traps and optical confinement.
A career in optical physics or engineering means knowing about the behavior and properties of light, including its interactions with matter and its detection by instruments. Since the discovery that ...
Conventional optics (e.g. lenses or mirrors) manipulate the phase via optical path difference by controlling thickness or refractive index of material. Recently, researchers reported that arbitrary ...
From fundamental physics to practical devices, Abdoulaye Ndao of UC San Diego's Jacobs School of Engineering and Qualcomm ...
Physicists have engineered light to drift sideways in discrete, quantized steps inside a fiber-optic loop, reproducing a ...
A transportable ytterbium optical lattice clock has been commercially shipped, rapidly recommissioned, and tested against ...
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Mini-MOT: A new miniaturized optical system for laser cooling atoms in a magneto-optical trap, or MOT. (Courtesy: NIST) The magneto-optical trap, or MOT, is the workhorse of cold-atom physics. Without ...