A research team led by Pasquale Scarlino at EPFL has built a small, tunable detector capable of sensing individual microwave photons and converting them into measurable electrical current. The device ...

The technology of integrated photonic quantum chips has successfully enabled the on-chip preparation, manipulation, and detection of photonic quantum states, thereby significantly accelerating the ...

A project at Switzerland's EPFL research center has developed a new variant of fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy (FLIM) that could substantially accelerate the imaging operation. Described in ...

The manipulation and measurement of photons, individual quanta of light, underpin the promising emerging technologies of photonic quantum computing and quantum communications. However, without a ...

Laser spectroscopy is a powerful tool for atmospheric gas analysis, yet traditional methods face challenges due to atmospheric turbulence and significant energy loss. While dual-comb spectroscopy ...

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