It is my pleasure to announce that the new head of WPI’s Department of Physics (PH) is Lyubov Titova, an accomplished scholar and teacher who leads the Ultrafast THz and Optical Spectroscopy Lab at ...

Researchers have developed, for the first time in the world, incoherent dielectric tensor tomography (iDTT), a technology ...

Scientists have created tiny “optical tornadoes” — swirling beams of light that twist like miniature whirlwinds — using a ...

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In the three decades since CERN made Tim Berners-Lee’s World Wide Web freely and openly available to everyone, we’ve got used to exchanging extraordinary amounts of data. One way of keeping up with ...

Scientists break telecom wavelength barrier that previously blocked long distance quantum communication over existing optical ...

In the Environmental Optics Laboratory (EOL) we perform research to reduce uncertainties by developing new measurement and analytical methods. Several graduate and undergraduate students participate ...

In the age of information, data processing and computation are essential. But current computation devices lack scalability and suffer from high carbon emissions. So researchers are constantly looking ...

As technology advances, and the demand for faster, higher-bandwidth, and more energy-efficient data processing continues to ...

Explore the laws of matter and energy while mastering physics concepts that explain the universe, power innovation, and matter and energy. Participate in paid cooperative education and hands-on ...

The global optical computing market is poised for exponential growth driven by the convergence of AI bandwidth demands, photonic quantum computing, and the maturation of silicon photonics. Key ...