Over the past decades, engineers have introduced numerous technologies that rely on light and its underlying characteristics.

An international research team has controlled hybrid electron-photon quantum states in helium atoms. Control of these special quantum states was enabled by the pulse formation of very intense, extreme ...

In a recent study published in Nature, and international team of researchers led by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have discovered a novel method to increase the interactions between ...

Speed matters. When an X-ray photon excites an atom or ion, making a core electron jump onto a higher energy level, a ...

LEMONT, Ill.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--A new set of electron beam measurements puts the upgraded Advanced Photon Source (APS) at the top of the list of the world’s synchrotron X-ray research facilities. The ...

Swiss research center EPFL has used an integrated photonics approach to efficiently modulate an electron beam, potentially offering a new platform for investigations into free-electron quantum optics.

Researchers have successfully created electron-photon pairs in a controlled way in an electron microscope. Researchers from Göttingen (Germany) and Lausanne (Switzerland) have successfully created ...

Schematics of the all-optical nonlinear Compton scattering experiment showing laser-driven electron acceleration, electron-laser collision, and Compton scattering to produce gamma rays. In a ...

The famous double-slit experiment brings into question the very nature of matter. Its cousin, the quantum eraser experiment, ...

Researchers from Göttingen (Germany) and Lausanne (Switzerland) have successfully created electron-photon pairs in a controlled way in an electron microscope for the first time. Using a new method, ...