Finding new ways to slow fleeting waves of light or even stop them in their tracks could lead to more advanced photonic ...

Metasurfaces have the potential to fundamentally improve optical systems in our everyday lives. By controlling light more precisely, they drive compact, multi-functional solutions. Researchers have ...

The Alphabet “moonshot” project is launching a new chip to deliver high-speed internet with light instead of radio waves.

Light is a type of electromagnetic radiation that can be detected by the eye. It travels as a transverse wave. Unlike a sound waves, light waves do not need a medium to pass through, they can ...

massless particles that travel at the speed of light (300,000 kilometers per second in a vacuum). Every photon is characterized by wavelength (the distance from the crest of one wave to the crest ...

In a study of how limbless animals move through environments like desert sand, researchers have found that after colliding with an obstacle, a snake’s motion changes similarly to the way light bends ...

Lessons from light The technique to shape water waves was developed through an interdisciplinary effort inspired by Asst Prof Shen's prior work -- using light waves to create complex structures or ...