Controlling light is an important technological challenge—not just at the large scale of optics in microscopes and telescopes ...

A new kind of mirror is emerging from quantum physics labs, one that exists not as a chunk of polished glass but as a ...

Physicists have finally turned a long standing thought experiment into a laboratory reality, showing that electromagnetic waves can be reflected in time as cleanly as light bounces off a mirror in ...

Using just a few hundred identical atoms, physicists at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics have pieced together the world’s lightest mirror. Despite having a surface measured in mere microns ...

Light can be sculpted into countless shapes. Yet building optical devices that can simultaneously manipulate many different ...