Optics
- Mantis Shrimp Eyes Could Lead To Movies Of The Future
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A marine crustacean could inspire the next generation of DVD and CD players, says a new study in Nature Photonics. Mantis shrimps found on the Great Barrier Reef in Australia have the most complex vision systems known to science. They can see in twelve col ...
Article - News Staff - Oct 25 2009 - 3:39pm
- Suzanne Cooke of WBT
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Please note-I am not in to crystals, essential oils or new age ...
Blog Post - M. Italiano - Apr 26 2010 - 7:40pm
- 12 Attoseconds: A New World Record For Shortest Controllable Time
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Lasers can now generate light pulses down to 100 attoseconds thereby enabling real-time measurements on ultrashort time scales that are inaccessible by any other methods. Scientists at the Max Born Institute for Nonlinear Optics and Short Time Spectroscop ...
Article - News Staff - May 11 2010 - 6:31pm
- Nonlinear Optics
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What is nonlinear optics? ...
Article - Mei Fang - May 18 2010 - 2:24am
- Airy Beams And Light Bullets That Can Twist Around Curves
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Light beams travel in straight lines and don't go around corners, they instead spread through a process known as diffraction. Researchers at Tel Aviv University have discovered that small beams of light can indeed be bent in a laboratory setting, dif ...
Article - News Staff - Jun 16 2010 - 11:34am
- Brillouin Amplification And Creating Light From Sound
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When light is used to transmit information, modulated light pulses travel along optical fibers, which can become weaker due to optical attenuation in the fiber and so are refreshed in signal regeneration stations along the way, where the signals are ampli ...
Article - News Staff - Jun 23 2010 - 9:31am
- Entangled Photon Pairs Get A Little Brighter
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Future technology such as quantum cryptography and computation, or perhaps even larger scale teleportation, requires a deeper understanding of the phenomenon known as "entanglement", the quantum non-local connection, an aspect of quantum theory a ...
Article - News Staff - Jul 10 2010 - 6:56pm
- Optics Compared To Quantum Mechanics
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Optics normally treats the behaviour of packages of light waves (photons). However, when passing through appropriately shaped fields, particles may behave similar as photons. A beam of electrons that is not too dense will under such conditions behave simi ...
Article - Hans van Leunen - Jul 27 2010 - 9:56am
- Schrödinger's Cat Now Made Of Light
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A "cat state" is a curiosity of the quantum world, where particles can exist in "superpositions" of two opposite properties simultaneously. Cat state is a reference to German physicist Erwin Schrödinger's famed 1935 theoretical not ...
Article - News Staff - Sep 1 2010 - 1:01pm
- Never Exercise Again- Optogenetics Is A Literal Light Workout For Muscles
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Unable to exercise? Some new research may be hope in keeping muscles from atrophy. Researchers from Stanford University have shown how to use light to induce muscle contraction. But don't cancel your gym membership just yet. The study used bioeng ...
Article - News Staff - Sep 26 2010 - 2:12pm
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