Nano-Optics News

Generation of light with intensity fluctuations below the shot-noise limit has been one of the most important challenges in quantum optics. An elegant approach was proposed in the 1980s: through excitation of a two-level atom, a stream of single photons is generated, ideally with no photon number…

Starting with efforts in scanning nearfield optical microscopy in the 1980s, many laboratories around the world have contributed to pushing the resolution of optical imaging beyond the Abbe limit [1]. A particularly fruitful outcome has been the invention of "super-resolution microscopy",…

Photons do not usually interact. This is why in linear optics two laser beams can cross without clashing like two swords. In nonlinear optical materials, however, photons can interact with one another, opening the door to logic operations. This is of great interest in nano-quantum-optics, where one…

Mechanical plasticity of cells

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

in: Nature Materials 15, 1090 (2016).

Few-photon coherent nonlinear optics with a single molecule

A. Maser, B. Gmeiner, T. Utikal, S. Götzinger, and V. Sandoghdar,

in Nature Photonics 10, 450 (2016).

402 young scientists from 80 countries will participate in the 66th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting. They are outstanding students, graduate students and post-docs under 35 years of age, conducting research in the field of physics. The participants had successfully applied in a multi-stage…