Atomic, molecular and optical physics lies at the intersection of quantum mechanics and electromagnetic theory, providing the fundamental framework for our understanding of matter and light.

Light can be sculpted into countless shapes. Yet building optical devices that can simultaneously manipulate many different ...

SPIE Photonics West sees the global optics and photonics community come together to present and discuss the latest industry ...

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

Optical computing has emerged as a powerful approach for high-speed and energy-efficient information processing. Diffractive ...

Glass nanostructures etched using high-intensity femtosecond laser pulses promise to keep vast quantities of data safe for billions of years, describe Peter Kazansky, Ausra Cerkauskaite and Rokas ...

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

A research team has developed a new way to measure and predict how plant leaves scatter and reflect light, revealing that leaf optical behavior can be accurately inferred from measurable phenotypic ...

A new experiment has demonstrated something that sounds physically impossible – light itself casting a shadow. It turns out that if you manipulate a laser just right, then hit it side-on with another ...

Why electrical circuits operating at optical frequencies is an attractive opportunity. How a new plasmonic arrangement is used to mix electrical signals at optical frequencies. The advantages and ...