The Archive for History of Exact Sciences casts light upon the conceptual groundwork of the sciences by analyzing the historical course of mathematical and quantitative thought and the precise theory ...

Researchers have developed a new way to study how light behaves inside tiny, three-dimensional optical cavities—structures ...

In conventional lasers, mirrors are essential to bounce light back and forth, stimulating coherent emission from excited atoms or molecules, and thus light amplification.

A major challenge to increasing bandwidth in optical telecommunications is to encode electronic signals onto a lightwave carrier by modulating the light up to very fast rates. Polymer electro-optic ...

In a groundbreaking achievement, scientists have successfully captured the precise shape of a single photon, marking a ...