High-frequency light is useful. The higher the frequency of light, the shorter its wavelength—and the shorter the wavelength, the smaller the objects and details the light can be used to see. Extreme ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Scientists have found a way to make atoms dance with light, quite literally. In certain crystals, vibrations called phonons can ...

Harvard researchers built a racetrack-shaped quantum cascade laser that makes bright, stable, mid-infrared frequency combs on ...

A photon enters a tiny disk of layered crystal no wider than a human hair. It circles the rim, bouncing along atomically ...

Interferometers, devices that can modulate aspects of light, play the important role of modulating and switching light signals in fiber-optic communications networks and are frequently used for gas ...

For high-speed and large-capacity optical communication applications and improvement of accuracy in microwave generation and evaluation equipment TOKYO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--NTT Corporation (NTT) and ...

I guess it's like how we use the square root of minus one to solve various equations. It sounda impossible but actually works! Click to expand... Sort've, but I don't think they're going into the ...