News tagged with green laser

Nanodot-based memory sets new world speed record

Record speed, low-voltage, and ultra-small size make nanodots a "triple threat" for electronic memory in computers and other electronic devices.

Technology / Semiconductors

created Apr 18, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (12) | comments 9 | with audio podcast

Nanoscale nonlinear light source created

Not long after the development of the first laser in 1960 scientists discovered that shining a beam through certain crystals produced light of a different color; more specifically, it produced light of exactly ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Sep 22, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Single Green Fluorescent Protein-expressing cell is basis of living laser device

(PhysOrg.com) -- It sounds like something out of a comic book or a science fiction movie – a living laser – but that is exactly what two investigators at the Wellman Center for Photomedicine at Massachusetts ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Jun 12, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (14) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Iowa State engineer and Goodrich partner to develop next-generation fuel nozzle diagnostic systems

A green laser flashed across the high-pressure spray that fuels a jet engine. Those flashes, some just 50 millionths of a second apart, froze the droplets for a camera to record and a computer to analyze.

Technology / Engineering

created Dec 22, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Shedding light on a protein, and a future

While on a research co-op in London, Northeastern University senior Brendon Kellner investigated the inner workings of certain proteins through state-of-the-art ultrafast lasers. These lasers generate light ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Dec 17, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Researchers measure high infrared power levels from some green lasers

Green laser pointers have become a popular consumer item, delivering light that's brighter to the eye than red lasers, but stories have circulated on the Web about the potential hazards of inexpensive models. ...

Physics / General Physics

created Aug 04, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 2

Vibrations key to efficiency of green fluorescent protein

University of California, Berkeley, chemists have discovered the secret to the success of a jellyfish protein whose green glow has made it the darling of biologists and the subject of the 2008 Nobel Prize ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Nov 11, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (6) | comments 1

Big impact from tiny semiconductor lasers

(PhysOrg.com) -- A massive European effort to develop high-brightness semiconductor lasers could transform healthcare, telecoms and display applications and make Europe an undisputed leader in the field.

Technology / Engineering

created Aug 12, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Using high-precision laser tweezers to juggle cells

Researchers at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, have developed a new method to study single cells while exposing them to controlled environmental changes. The unique method, where a set of laser tweezers ...

Physics / General Physics

created May 15, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Tiny lasers plug the 'green gap'

(PhysOrg.com) -- Compact lasers which can work in formerly inaccessible parts of the spectrum and are suitable for mass production are now within reach.

Physics / General Physics

created Apr 30, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (9) | comments 4