The Lightest Mirror in the World

31st July 2020 by Leave a Comment

As few as 100 atoms can reflect light when they act as a collective quantum system

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Laser Takes Pictures of Electrons in Crystals

2nd July 2020 by Leave a Comment

Picoscope: a new type of a light microscope with a resolution of a few tens of picometers

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A Picture of a Light Pulse

28th January 2020 by Leave a Comment

Tiny crystals help to measure the shape of the laser light wave with high accuracy

Filed Under: Beam Shaping, Detectors, Imaging, Optoelectronics, Photonics, Research News, Spectroscopy, Ultrashort Laser Pulses Tagged With: , , ,

Unfazed by Phase Shifts

15th January 2020 by Leave a Comment

A novel type of detector enables the oscillation profile of light waves to be precisely determined

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An Ultrafast Glimpse of Nanoscopic Aerosols

18th October 2019 by Leave a Comment

Exploration the initial consequences of the interaction of light with molecules on the surface of nanoscopic aerosols

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Quantum Optics in Topological Waveguides

6th September 2019 by Leave a Comment

New principle for quantum simulators in which quantum bits can exchange light quanta via a waveguide

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Light-Wave Dynamic Control of Magnetism

27th June 2019 by Leave a Comment

For the first time ever, physicists changed the magnetic moment of a material using a light wave within one femtosecond

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Quantum Distillery for Light

25th April 2019 by Leave a Comment

Munich physicists develop a technique to extract pure single photons

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High-Flux Ultrafast Photoelectron Spectroscopy

6th February 2019 by Leave a Comment

New approach reduces the acquisition time for the analysis of multidimensional electron motions by a factor of 1000

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A New Home for Optical Solitons

25th January 2019 by Leave a Comment

Munich physicists generated dissipative solitons in passive, free-space resonators for the first time

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