Technion scientists measure ultrafast quantum light pulses for the first time

A light pulse is technically empty, yet capable of carrying a trillion photons in a single burst. That is part of what makes ...
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Physics meets art: A new twist on interference patterns

Tokyo, Japan – One of the simplest and most beautiful naturally occurring patterns can be observed when light is shined through a pair of slightly misaligned periodic structures. This phenomenon, ...
New Scientist

How a century-long argument over light’s true nature came to an end

Two of the forefathers of quantum theory, Albert Einstein and Niels Bohr, had a famous argument over whether light is a wave ...
Science Daily

After 20 years, scientists finally explain the Crab Pulsar’s strange “zebra stripes”

For decades, astronomers have been puzzled by strange “zebra stripe” patterns in radio waves from the Crab Pulsar — bright bands separated by complete darkness. Now, new research suggests the answer ...
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Light Interacts With Itself When Squeezed Through "Slits In Time"

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London. Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and ...
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Noise-free full-color holography under incoherent ordinary light: a quarter-wave geometric-phase route to practical 3D imaging

QWP-based GP-SIDH architecture for artifact-suppressed full-color holography under broadband incoherent illumination: schematic overview (left) and video-rate phase retrieval with high-fidelity ...