Optics
- By Coupling Photons To Atoms In Glass Fiber, Time Is Stopped
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Light is a useful tool for quantum communication, but it has one major disadvantage- it travels at the speed of light and sometimes things need to be kept in place, or at least slowed down. Like with trains all sharing a track, you can't have one expr ...
Article - News Staff - Apr 8 2015 - 10:12am
- New Technique Reduces Halo Effect Caused By Camera Lenses
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In a recent study, scientists have presented a new technique that significantly reduces the halo effect that is generated when using multi-focal. contact and intra-ocular, lenses and looking at bright point sources in dark conditions. Presbyopia is a resul ...
Article - News Staff - Apr 16 2015 - 9:00am
- Liquid Tunable Nanolaser Developed
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Scientists have developed the first liquid nanoscale laser and it's tunable in real time, meaning you can quickly and simply produce different colors, a unique and useful feature. The laser technology could lead to practical applications, such as a n ...
Article - News Staff - May 2 2015 - 12:00pm
- Lights Changes Sleep Patterns
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By Rebecca Boyle, Inside Science-- When light bulbs colonize our homes, humans get much less sleep. It's an intuitive idea, but a new study measures this effect in a real-life situation for the first time by examining hunter-gatherers in Argentina. C ...
Article - Inside Science - Jul 14 2015 - 11:00am
- World-largest Petawatt Laser Completed, Delivering 2,000 Trillion Watts Output
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The Institute of Laser Engineering (ILE), Osaka University, has succeeded to reinforce the Petawatt [3] laser "LFEX" to deliver up to 2,000 trillion watts in the duration of one trillionth of one second (this corresponds to 1000 times the integr ...
Article - News Staff - Aug 10 2015 - 7:32am
- 'Magic' Sphere For Computing Using Photons
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In several years- in perhaps decades, or maybe never- our computers, nanoantennas and other kinds of equipment could operate on the base of photons, rather than electrons. Even now we are practically prepared to accomplish this switch. If it happens, the ...
Article - News Staff - Aug 30 2015 - 1:30pm
- Laser Razors- What Technology Can And Can't Do
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Since their first use in the 1960s, there has been a tremendous expansion of laser technology into an impressively wide range of uses, from fundamental science, health care and security to entertainment. Since Theodore Maiman’s first working laser at the ...
Article - The Conversation - Oct 17 2015 - 8:23am
- Light: Plucking A Particle Out Of A Pulse
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Researchers have managed to 'pluck' a single photon, one particle of light, out of a pulse of light. ...
Article - News Staff - Dec 3 2015 - 8:30am
- The Secret Life In Soil Revealed
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Most of us think nothing of rainfall or where it goes, unless it leads to flooding or landslides. But soil scientists have been studying how water moves across or through soil for decades. Daniel Hirmas, a professor at University of Kansas, and his team m ...
Article - News Staff - Mar 31 2016 - 8:00am
- 1,000 Times Faster Than Ever Before
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Photosynthesis, vision, and many other biological processes depend on light, but it’s hard to capture responses of biomolecules to light because they happen almost instantaneously. ...
Article - News Staff - May 5 2016 - 1:32pm
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