Optics

"Breakthrough switching speed with an all-optical chalcogenide glass chip: 640 Gbit/s Demultiplexing," Leif ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 2 2009 - 11:59am

mirror, the researchers have fitted a piezoelectric layer that can also deform the mirror and correct all ...

Article - News Staff - May 14 2014 - 9:29pm

particularly in tropical forests where trees can be 50m or more and weigh over 100 tonnes. As a result, all ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 19 2014 - 3:00pm

trains all sharing a track, you can't have one express line with no brakes for very long. A team ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 8 2015 - 10:12am

et al., Nature Nanotechnology, July 30, 2018) They found that more than 85 percent of all visible ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 10 2018 - 12:07pm

Institute's research interests include semiconductor materials and devices, practical, all solid state lasers, ...

Article - Anna Ohlden - Oct 14 2008 - 3:30am

the image while retaining all of its properties. The basic setup of the experiment is a single light ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 1 2007 - 12:33pm

contradicts our expectation that metabolism is roughly the same in all cells and opens the door for a new ...

Article - The Conversation - Mar 9 2015 - 7:00pm

exist, or none at all. Remote sensing and medical applications call for compact laser systems, for ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 6 2014 - 1:00pm

We all understand light has a wide electromagnetic spectrum and we only see a small band of that. ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 18 2014 - 3:33pm

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John
”Just this week, Iran responded to Israel preemptively bombing their planned nuclear weapons facility by launching missiles, and the Israeli missile defense system, the Iron Dome, stopped most of...

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John
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The Thirty Meter Telescope May Be Cancelled Not by Ordinary People's Protest, but by Wealthy People's Whim · 15 hours ago
Hontas Farmer
I'm not going to say you are wrong about any of the above. I'd not be surprised by a rising price tag as that seems to be how these things always go. I can't think of any big science...

The Thirty Meter Telescope May Be Cancelled Not by Ordinary People's Protest, but by Wealthy People's Whim · 1 day ago
John
To be honest, TMT did this to themselves by not being honest about the cost from the start. Had they told everyone that the cost for the installation would be on the order of $3 billion (most of...

The Thirty Meter Telescope May Be Cancelled Not by Ordinary People's Protest, but by Wealthy People's Whim · 1 day ago
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Isn't this a dangerous inversion of how science is supposed to be done? What's to prevent this same scenario playing out for ANY potential discovery coming from a precision measurement...

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