Lasers produce coherent waves of light: All the light inside a laser vibrates completely in sync. Meanwhile, quantum mechanics tells us that particles like atoms should also be thought of as waves. As a result, we can build ...
Condensed Matter
Jun 14, 2022
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German engineers have created a camera no bigger than a grain of salt that could change the future of health imaging—and clandestine surveillance.
Optics & Photonics
Jun 27, 2016
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Curved lenses, like those in cameras or telescopes, are stacked in order to reduce distortions and resolve a clear image. That's why high-power microscopes are so big and telephoto lenses so long.
Optics & Photonics
Jun 2, 2016
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The fundamental resource that drives a quantum computer is entanglement—the connection between two distant particles which Einstein famously called 'spooky action at a distance'. The Bristol researchers have, for the ...
Optics & Photonics
Dec 11, 2011
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Electromagnetic pulses lasting one millionth of a millionth of a second may hold the key to advances in medical imaging, communications and drug development. But the pulses, called terahertz waves, have long required elaborate ...
Optics & Photonics
Feb 9, 2017
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Researchers at Princeton University have begun crystallizing light as part of an effort to answer fundamental questions about the physics of matter.
Optics & Photonics
Sep 9, 2014
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Scientists have developed a way of extracting a richer palette of colours from the available spectrum by harnessing disordered patterns inspired by nature that would typically be seen as black.
Optics & Photonics
Mar 27, 2020
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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.
Optics & Photonics
Aug 6, 2020
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Capturing blur-free images of fast movements like falling water droplets or molecular interactions requires expensive ultrafast cameras that acquire millions of images per second. In a new paper, researchers report a camera ...
Optics & Photonics
Sep 14, 2023
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Researchers from the MQ Photonics Research Centre joined with fiber laser experts from the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Optics and Precision Engineering in Jena, Germany to demonstrate a diamond laser 20 times more powerful ...
Optics & Photonics
Aug 13, 2015
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