More efficient light traps, capable of capturing it while keeping all its properties intact over time, pave the way for new quantum technologies. Among the new technologies that can now be created, there are sensors capable of detecting individual particles of light, photons.
The research was coordinated by Italy, with Gianluigi Zito of the Institute of Applied Sciences and Intelligent Systems of the National Research Council, and conducted in collaboration with the University of Singapore and the Lawrence National Laboratories Berkeley, California. "This breakthrough is not only a fundamental discovery, but represents a paradigm shift in the field of nanophotonics that changes our understanding of the manipulation of light at the nanometric level"