Switching light on and off
Research on slow light has moved up a gear
Scientists bring light to sharpest focus
Researchers create the smallest spot size ever with radially-polarized light.
Optical vortices show their true colours
Experiments confirm that dark light is made of different colours
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Displays scoop Descartes prize
Two teams share this year's €1m Descartes prize
Negative-index materials made easy
Single crystal demonstrates negative refraction
Hollow fibre carries megawatt pulses
Optical physicists have made a photonic-band gap fibre that can transmit megawatt pulses
Bose-Einstein condensates break temperature record
Physicists have cooled a gas of sodium atoms down to less than a nanokelvin
Read article: Bose-Einstein condensates break temperature record
Squeezed light breaks quantum barrier
Physicists have made an ultra-precise laser pointer with squeezed beams of light
Fast and slow light made easy
Superluminal light has been now been observed in a crystal at room temperature
Micromachines made easy
Scientists have demonstrated a new microfabrication technique by making a micro pinball table
Read article: Micromachines made easy
