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Stanford's Fingertip-Sized Chip Boosts Light 100x With Tiny Power Draw
A new Stanford optical amplifier the size of a fingertip can intensify light signals 100-fold on a few hundred milliwatts — small enough to run on a battery and fit inside a smartphone.
Scientists Teleport a Photon Between Quantum Dots Across 270 Meters
A European team transferred a photon's quantum state between two independent quantum dots over a 270-metre free-space link, clearing a major hurdle on the road to a quantum internet.
MIT Discovers Chaotic Laser Light Self-Organizes Into a Pencil Beam
Researchers at MIT found that messy, high-power laser light fired down an optical fiber can spontaneously focus itself — opening a faster path to 3D imaging of the blood–brain barrier.
New Camera Captures Events Unfolding in Trillionths of a Second
Chinese researchers unveiled an imaging method that captures both brightness and structural change in a single shot at femtosecond speeds — opening a new window on ultrafast science.

IonQ Links Two Quantum Computers With Light for the First Time
The quantum computing company photonically connected two independent trapped-ion systems using entanglement — a first for commercial quantum hardware.
Scientists Build First Quantum Battery That Charges With Light
Australian researchers built a laser-charged quantum battery that gets faster as it grows — flipping how conventional energy storage works.
Scientists Shatter the Solar Cell Efficiency Ceiling with a 130% Quantum Yield
A team from Kyushu University and Johannes Gutenberg University achieved what was long thought impossible — extracting more energy carriers from sunlight than photons absorbed.
Duke Engineers Build the Fastest Light Detector Ever — and It Needs No Power to Run
A new ultrathin photodetector from Duke University captures light across the entire electromagnetic spectrum in just 125 picoseconds, opening doors to revolutionary cameras for medicine and agriculture.