New class of laser beam doesn't follow normal laws of refraction
University of Central Florida researchers have developed a new type of laser beam that doesn't follow long-held principles about how light refracts and travels.
University of Central Florida researchers have developed a new type of laser beam that doesn't follow long-held principles about how light refracts and travels.
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Aug 6, 2020
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Researchers have demonstrated a new high-resolution X-ray imaging technique that can capture the motion of rapidly moving objects and quickly changing dynamics. The new method could be used for non-destructive imaging of ...
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Aug 5, 2020
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Terahertz radiation, or T-rays, has barely been exploited compared to most of the rest of the electromagnetic spectrum. Yet T-rays potentially have applications in next-generation wireless communications (6G/7G), security ...
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Jul 14, 2020
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Novel red LEDs are more temperature stable than those made using the conventional semiconductor of choice.
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Jul 6, 2020
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The vortex beam with orbital angular momentum (OAM) is a new and ideal tool to selectively excite dipole forbidden states through linear optical absorption. The emergence of the vortex beam with OAM provides intriguing opportunities ...
How do you stop something that is faster than anything else, intangible and always in motion by nature? A team led by physicists Dr. Thorsten Peters and Professor Thomas Halfmann is doing the seemingly impossible: stopping ...
Optics & Photonics
Jun 16, 2020
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Multispectral imaging technology has found wide applications in remote sensing, as it has a relatively high spectral resolution. But the existing technologies have many shortcomings such as low system integration, high complexity, ...
Optics & Photonics
Jun 9, 2020
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Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University have developed a new way of calculating simple holograms for heads-up displays (HUDs) and near-eye displays (NEDs). The method is up to 56 times faster than conventional algorithms ...
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Jun 8, 2020
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Researchers have developed a new way to build power efficient and programmable integrated switching units on a silicon photonics chip. The new technology is poised to reduce production costs by allowing a generic optical ...
Optics & Photonics
May 28, 2020
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In the past decade, anti-resonant, hollow-core photonic crystal fibers (HC-PCFs) have become excellent platforms for studying ultrafast nonlinear optics such as ultrashort pulse compression to the single-cycle regime, efficient ...
Optics & Photonics
May 25, 2020
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