New experiments are pushing our understanding of light and optics to the limit and are also opening up new areas of physics and novel applications. (Picture credit: Photodisc) Optics has always been ...

Detecting a single particle of light is hard; detecting a single microwave photon is even harder. Microwave photons, the tiny packets of electromagnetic radiation used in current technologies like ...

Ray Anchordoquy is an undergraduate student at the University of Colorado Boulder majoring in physics, and is particularly interested in quantum optics and computational neuroscience. In his free time ...