Nano-Optics News

Coherent coupling of a single molecule to a scanning Fabry-Perot microcavity

Physicists in many research areas aim to realize efficient devices that can generate intricate quantum states and perform complex operations.…

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Biexciton emission strongly enhanced by plasmonic nano-cone

Semiconductor quantum dots (Q-dots) are desirable in many applications because they can emit multiple photons for each excitation pulse via the…

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A single molecule as a high-fidelity photon-gun for producing intensity-squeezed light

Generation of light with intensity fluctuations below the shot-noise limit has been one of the most important challenges in quantum optics. An elegant…

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Cryogenic optical localization provides 3D protein structure data with Angstrom resolution

Starting with efforts in scanning nearfield optical microscopy in the 1980s, many laboratories around the world have contributed to pushing the…

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Nonlinear optics with a single molecule and only a few photons

Photons do not usually interact. This is why in linear optics two laser beams can cross without clashing like two swords. In nonlinear optical…

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Navid Bonakdar publishes new paper "Mechanical Plasticity of Cells"

Mechanical plasticity of cells

Navid Bonakdar, Richard Gerum, Michael Kuhn, Marina Spörrer, Anna Lippert, Werner Schneider, Katerina E. Aifantis &…

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