Scientists have created tiny “optical tornadoes” — swirling beams of light that twist like miniature whirlwinds — using a ...

Announcing a new publication from Opto-Electronic Advances; DOI 10.29026/oea.2026.250263 SHANNON, CLARE, IRELAND, April ...

Researchers in Poland have developed 'optical tornadoes'—stable, swirling beams of light generated using liquid crystals—that could simplify quantum and optical communication technologies. At the same ...

1 Or MATH.1280 Calculus 1A and MATH.1290 Calculus 1B, followed by MATH.1320 Calculus II. 2 A grade of C or better in Calculus II is required. 3 PHYS.3380 Optics and Waves satisfies the prerequisite ...

In classical communications, a pulse of light carries information encoded as zeroes and ones, enabling the transmission of telecommunications signals through optical fibers. The field of quantum ...

Superconducting qubits—bits of quantum information—have been widely considered a promising technology for moving quantum ...

Physicists have spent more than a century measuring and making sense of the strange ways that photons, electrons, and other subatomic particles interact at extremely small scales. Engineers have spent ...

From left: Cohen, Gopinath, Krueper in the lab. Their paper, “Realistic model of entanglement-enhanced sensing in optical fibers,” was published in Optics Express earlier this year. Research into ...

Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is an imaging technology that can non-invasively generate cross-sectional images of tissue. OCT is widely used in eye clinics to diagnose and manage retinal diseases ...

Roland Winston, SB’56, SM’57, PhD’63—a pioneer in solar energy, engineering, and physics—died Feb. 8 at his home in California. He was 88. Winston was a University of Chicago professor in the ...