News tagged with beam polarization
Prototype 'optics table on a chip' places microwave photon in two colors at once
(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have created a tunable superconducting circuit on a chip that can place a single microwave photon (particle of light) ...
Jul 07, 2011 |
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Paging Han Solo: Researchers find more efficient way to steer laser beams
For many practical applications involving lasers, it's important to be able to control the direction of the laser beams. Just ask Han Solo, or the captain of the Death Star. Researchers from North Carolina State University ...
May 02, 2011 |
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Scientists demonstrate laser with controlled polarization
Applied scientists at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) in collaboration with researchers from Hamamatsu Photonics in Hamamatsu City, Japan, have demonstrated, for the first time, ...
Apr 13, 2009 |
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Quantum internet: Physicists build first elementary quantum network
(Phys.org) -- A team of scientists at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics realizes a first elementary quantum network based on interfaces between single atoms and photons.
Apr 11, 2012 |
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Measuring magnetic fields
(Phys.org) -- Polarized light is a familiar phenomenon, as people who prefer polarized sunglasses can testify. The electric field in a beam of light can vibrate either left-right or up-down, and the scattering ...
Apr 09, 2012 |
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An optical diode made with silicon technology can be used for quantum information
(PhysOrg.com) -- Transistors, resistors, capacitors, and diodes. All of these are examples of common electrical circuit elements that can be found on a computer motherboard, for instance. Billions of transistors ...
Mar 23, 2012 |
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APEX: At the forefront of what's needed for the next generation of light sources
(PhysOrg.com) -- The focus of Berkeley Lab’s Advanced Photon Injector Experiment, APEX, is an extraordinary electron gun specially designed for the front end of superconducting accelerators. When it’s ...
Mar 16, 2012 |
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NASA's IceBridge 2012 Arctic campaign takes to the skies
Researchers and flight crew with NASA's Operation IceBridge, an airborne mission to study changes in polar ice, began another season of science activity with the start of the 2012 Arctic campaign on March 13. From mid-March ...
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Mar 15, 2012 |
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Image or mirror image? Chiral recognition by femtosecond laser
(PhysOrg.com) -- It is not always easy to distinguish between images and mirror images of molecules, but this knowledge is important when one image of a molecule is a drug and the mirror image is toxic. One ...
Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry
Mar 09, 2012 |
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Physicists develop theoretical framework for interpreting results of subatomic-particle collisions
Accelerating subatomic particles to almost the speed of light and then crashing them together reveals much about the nature of the matter. Nuclear physicists need to fully understand these complex collisions ...
Feb 17, 2012 |
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Toward a global microwave standard
Much of what is known about decadal climate change – and much of what appears on the evening weather forecast as well – comes from satellite-based remote sensing of microwave radiation at different ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Feb 06, 2012 |
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Researchers discover novel chemical route to form organic molecules
An international team of scientists led by University of Hawai‘i at M?noa Professor Ralf I. Kaiser, Alexander M. Mebel of Florida International University, and Alexander Tielens of Leiden Observatory in the Netherlands, ...
Jan 13, 2012 |
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Optical nanoantennas enable efficient multipurpose particle manipulation
University of Illinois researchers have shown that by tuning the properties of laser light illuminating arrays of metal nanoantennas, these nano-scale structures allow for dexterous optical tweezing as well ...
Jan 12, 2012 |
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