Optics and lasers are among the dual-use technologies that generate significant added value. The most widely publicized example is undoubtedly the Martian adventure of Thales lasers: the millionth ...

What does the passage of time look like for a truly quantum object? The world’s best clocks may soon be able to answer this question, testing how time can stretch and shift in the quantum realm and ...

Researchers from CEA-Leti, Université Grenoble Alpes, CEA-List, the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), the University of Bordeaux, Bordeaux INP, IMS France, Université Paris-Saclay ...

On October 8 and 9, 2025, the Ferdinand-Braun-Institut (FBH) will present its latest research findings at the Photonics Days conference and will be represented with a booth at the accompanying ...

Some things in cosmology may simply be unknowable. Why is there something rather than nothing? What lies outside the universe? What is inside a black hole? That last one has been niggling at ...

In a remarkable stride forward in energy research, scientists have achieved a significant breakthrough by directing nearly 200 lasers at a minuscule target, leading to a substantially more potent ...

Quantum computers differ from classical ones because their basic units of information, qubits, can exist in two states at once.

When two massive black holes slammed into each other earlier this year, astronomers were able to observe it in the clearest detail to date. Albert Einstein, the father of the theory of general ...

The first quantum revolution enabled the invention of technologies – such as the laser and the transistor – that have changed the world. The second revolution has the potential for even greater ...

This article explores how our understanding of the universe has evolved—from the scale of everyday experience down to the Planck length ...

For a century, Bell Labs has been responsible for one technological breakthrough after another. Now part of Nokia, Bell Labs is setting its sights on the quantum future, pushing the boundaries on ...

Until now, holograms have been created using lasers, but now researchers have used a new ensemble of components that could unleash this technology on the market. With their ubiquity in science fiction ...