Optics

Organic LEDS And Transparent Electronics

Your cay may soon have a new dashboard, one made of a flexible plastic and oxide layer that could be integrated into the car front window to give the driver direct information The MULTIFLEXIOXIDES project is designed to develop new cost-efficient, long las ...

Article - News Staff - May 14 2012 - 2:24pm

Brain Tissue Is Responsive To Light, Says Study

A recent placebo-controlled study showed evidence of trans-cranial bright light's effect to brain functions when administered through the ear. Bright light stimulation was found to increase activity in brain areas related to processing of visual sens ...

Article - News Staff - May 29 2012 - 11:14am

Atom Interferometry- Detecting The Undetectable

If one beam travels a fixed length and another travels an extra distance or in some other slightly different way, the two light beams overlap and interfere when they meet up, creating an interference pattern that scientists inspect to obtain highly precise ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 19 2012 - 7:00am

Plasmonic Nanolasers- A Laser The Size Of A Virus Particle

New single laser devices that are the size of a virus particle can also operate at room temperature. These plasmonic nanolasers could be readily integrated into silicon-based photonic devices, all-optical circuits and nanoscale biosensors.  We're goin ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 5 2012 - 11:00pm

A Quantum Kiss Between Nanoparticles That Changes The Color Of Space

Researchers have observed the quantum regime in the interaction between nano-sized spheres of gold, thanks to the change of color of the gap between these particles when they are at distances of less than one nanometer. They have literally 'seen' ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 7 2012 - 6:41pm

Single Photon's Noisy Quantum State Amplified, With No Noise

A device capable of amplifying the information in a single particle of light without adding noise has been created.  The researchers were able to amplify the noisy quantum state of a single photon subjected to loss, without adding noise in the process- th ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 12 2012 - 12:10pm

Undisturbed Excitation With Pulsed Light

The best way to get precise information regarding the inner structure of atoms and molecules is to excite them by means of resonant laser light but this laser light can lead to measurable modifications within the atom's electron shell, above a certai ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 26 2012 - 12:00pm

End-Run Around The Diffraction Limit: Shrinking Light To Billionths Of A Meter

In modern times, we have been spoiled by the ability of the private sector to make technology shrink in both cost and size- but Moore's Law can't do that forever using regular electrical signals. Maybe it is time for Moore's Light to take o ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 8 2012 - 7:00am

Synchrotron X-Rays Bring New Light To Old Fossils

Synchrotron-based imaging techniques of a 50 million-year-old lizard skin have identified the presence of teeth which are invisible to visible light, demonstrating for the first time that this fossil animal was more than just a skin moult.  Researchers us ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 18 2012 - 11:49am

Tetrapods: High Resolution X-rays Allow Early Backbone Reconstruction

What was the backbone of early tetrapods, the earliest four-legged animals, like? High-energy X-rays and a new data extraction protocol have allowed researchers to reconstruct the backbones of the 360 million year old fossils in exceptional detail. The re ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 13 2013 - 10:45pm