Preetish Kakoty describes why India's only Nobel-prize-winning physicist went to Sweden on a whim
Read article: C V Raman: the physicist with a ‘Himalayan ego’ who went to Stockholm convinced he’d win a Nobel prize
Nanostructured device efficiently transforms light into different frequencies – including those at technologically important near-infrared wavelengths
Read article: Metasurface optical device boosts nonlinear frequency conversion
New work will help advance the development of more reliable free-space networks
Read article: Skyrmion topology makes long-distance optical communications more robust
New nanostructure could be used to make lasers that work in the terahertz frequency range
Read article: Plasmonic metamaterial makes a photonic time crystal
Sunlight may provide an energy-efficient alternative to lasers used in quantum computing
Read article: Researchers harness sunlight to generate quantum entanglement
Novel source for quantum optics experiments could enable experiments in space or other locations with limited electricity
Read article: Sunlight can produce correlated pairs of photons
Discovery of superluminal correlations within 2D hexagonal boron nitride could advance super-resolution electron microscopy
Read article: Darkness can travel faster than light
Scientists at Microsoft Research tout a potential long-term alternative to standard digital archives
Read article: Laser-written glass plates could store data for thousands of years
Number of measurements required to learn about the behaviour of a complex, noisy quantum system reduced by a factor of 1011
Read article: Entangled light leads to quantum advantage
New holotomography measurements reveal that the tuneable optical properties of these cephalopods come from winding columns of platelets in iridescent cells
Read article: Squid use Bragg reflectors in their skin to change colour
