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Quantum teleportation becomes reality: Over busy Internet cables

Amit Malewar

Advance opens door for secure quantum applications.

Researchers showed that a laser beam can sometimes act like a solid object and cast a shadow that is visible to the naked eye. In the picture, the shadow appears as the horizontal line traversing the blue background.
Technology

Laser light can cast a shadow

Ashwini Sakharkar

A laser beam can act like an opaque object and cast a shadow.

Laser beam shadow
Science

Laser light can cast a shadow

Amit Malewar

Surprising finding could lead to new ways of controlling light.

round amplifier disk
Technology

Researchers set a new record for the strongest ultra-short laser pulses

Jay Kakade

Unleashing Unprecedented Power

Intense laser pulse focused on a solid target drives
Physics

Indian scientists devised a method to measure ultrahigh power, ultrashort laser pulses

Pranjal Malewar

The team used a specially designed instrument to measure the time profiles.

Quantum infrared spectroscopy
Quantum Technology

New innovative ultra-broadband, quantum-entangled source

Amit Malewar

Lights, detector, action!

artistic depiction of a wave encountering an exponentially curved spacetime
Physics

Milestone: A new kind of wave equation for accelerating waves

Amit Malewar

Accelerating waves shed light on major problems in physics.

Image showing butterfly.
Invention

Butterfly-inspired films create vibrant colors while cooling objects passively

Vidya Nagalwade

Nanofilms could significantly reduce cooling energy in buildings and vehicles.

Image showing breast cancer
Health

Using 3D X-rays to find breast cancer early

Pranjal Malewar

Scientists wants to improve a method for diagnosing breast cancer.

new all-optical method
Technology

A new all-optical approach to pumping chip-based nanolasers

Ashwini Sakharkar

New technology could aid in meeting the ever-growing need to move more data faster.

quantum emitter of single photons
Science

Twisty’ photons could turbocharge next-gen quantum communication

Amit Malewar

Stevens team’s on-chip technology uses orbital angular momentum to encode more information into a single photon.

An illustration of Pavlovian conditioning
Technology

New optical processor can detect similarities in datasets up to 1,000 times faster

Ashwini Sakharkar

Seeing the light.

Like a magnifying glass zooming in on an object, a time lens can zoom in on time. In recent work, engineers at Columbia built a time lens to identify individual photons.
Physics

Engineers resolve single photons 70x faster than other techniques

Pranjal Malewar

A step towards advancing quantum information processing

The study demonstrated the backflow of optical light
Science

The study demonstrated the backflow of optical light

Amit Malewar

This observation is relevant to any physical system supporting coherent waves.

Ben-Gurion University’s SMART (synthetic marginal aperture with revolving telescopes) nanosatellite
Invention

New nanosatellite system produces high-res images at low cost

Amit Malewar

Scientists at the Ben-Gurion University have come up with a new satellite imaging system that can effectively capture images that match the resolution of...

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Real-time formation of black hole jets observed for the first time

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