Fiber optics allow you to search the internet, text your friends and check your social media feeds. They also have geological, security and manufacturing applications.
Quantum optics is a branch of physics that studies the behavior of light and its interactions with matter at the quantum level. It explores phenomena that arise from the quantum nature of light and ...
New experiments are pushing our understanding of light and optics to the limit and are also opening up new areas of physics and novel applications. (Picture credit: Photodisc) Optics has always been ...
(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) John Ballato, Clemson University (THE CONVERSATION) Imagine a world without internet, ...