Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. The Universe is out there, waiting for you to discover it. This article is more than 4 years old. Light is well known to exhibit ...

Squeezed light is a specialized form of light in which quantum fluctuations are redistributed between two complementary properties. According to quantum theory, light is characterized by ...

Whenever light interacts with matter, light appears to slow down. This is not a new observation and standard wave mechanics can describe most of these daily phenomena. For example, when light is ...

Physicists at the University of Southampton have tested and proven a 50 year old theory for the first time using electro-magnetic waves. They have shown that the energy of waves can be increased by ...

The theory behind it was developed by a team led by Professor Peter Puschnig at the University of Graz. This new technique enables scientists, for the first time, to both measure and visualise the ...

Researchers at Tampere University and the University of Eastern Finland have reached a milestone in a study where they derived a new kind of wave equation, which applies for accelerating waves. The ...