Engineers are turning what used to be a bulky optics bench into something that fits on the tip of a finger, and the latest photonic chips go a step further by splitting a single laser into a ...

Figure 1: A ‘color center’ being created in a carbon nanotube through a photochemical reaction induced by an ultraviolet laser and a molecule of iodobenzene ...

Carbon nanotubes are moving from lab curiosities to workhorse components in quantum hardware, and one of the most striking examples is their use as single-photon light sources. By exploiting their ...

Over the past several decades, researchers have been making rapid progress in harnessing light to enable all sorts of scientific and industrial applications. From creating stupendously accurate clocks ...

“Carbon nanotubes are the only quantum emitters that can emit single photons at room temperature and also at wavelengths used for telecommunications,” said Yuichiro Kato of the RIKEN Center for ...