A tiny optical booster built directly onto a chip is pointing toward a future where light, not just electricity, does the heavy lifting inside our computers. By cranking up light signals roughly 100 ...

Light does a lot of work in the modern world, enabling all types of information technology, from TVs to satellites to ...

(WHTM) — There’s nothing like a bewildering optical illusion to get the weekend off to a good start. There are all kinds to choose from: the image that looks like one thing but also looks like another ...

Dark matter is a mysterious type of matter that does not emit, absorb, or reflect light, yet is predicted to account for most ...

NII, NTT, Inc. and NTT EAST, Inc. have successfully demonstrated the world's first automated optical transport layer control, ...

In the experiment, a high-power green laser passed through a ruby cube, illuminated from the side by a blue laser. The green laser increased the ruby’s absorption of the blue light, creating a darker ...

Nearly two centuries after Michael Faraday first showed that magnetism can twist light, physicists have uncovered a hidden magnetic ingredient inside this classic effect. The new work reveals that the ...

A century-old thought experiment on wave–particle duality is brought into the laboratory using a single trapped atom ...