News tagged with laser science

Atomtronics: A new phase

Just as NASA engineers test new rocket designs in computer studies before committing themselves to full prototypes, so physicists will often model matter under various circumstances to see whether something ...

Physics / General Physics

created Feb 19, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Atoms dressed with light show new interactions, could reveal way to observe enigmatic particle

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at the Joint Quantum Institute (JQI) have for the first time engineered and detected the presence of high angular momentum collisions between atoms at temperatures close to absolute ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Dec 08, 2011 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (7) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Quantum quirk: Scientists pack atoms together to prevent collisions in atomic clock

In a paradox typical of the quantum world, JILA scientists have eliminated collisions between atoms in an atomic clock by packing the atoms closer together. The surprising discovery, described in the Feb. ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Feb 03, 2011 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (8) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

'Air laser' may sniff bombs, pollutants from a distance (w/ Video)

Princeton University engineers have developed a new laser sensing technology that may allow soldiers to detect hidden bombs from a distance and scientists to better measure airborne environmental pollutants ...

Physics / General Physics

created Jan 28, 2011 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (17) | comments 6 | with audio podcast

Print your own lasers, lights and TV screens

Imagine printing your own room lighting, lasers, or solar cells from inks you buy at the local newsagent. Jacek Jasieniak and his colleagues at CSIRO, the University of Melbourne and the University of Padua ...

Physics / General Physics

created Jul 01, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (29) | comments 6 | with audio podcast

A step closer to an ultra precise atomic clock

A clock that is so precise that it loses only a second every 300 million years - this is the result of new research in ultra cold atoms. The international collaboration is comprised of researchers from the ...

Physics / General Physics

created Apr 16, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (15) | comments 7

Novel technique shrinks size of nanotechnology circuitry

(PhysOrg.com) -- A University of Colorado at Boulder team has developed a new method of shrinking the size of circuitry used in nanotechnology devices like computer chips and solar cells by using two separate colors of light.

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Apr 16, 2009 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (12) | comments 1

Physicists discover important step for making light crystals (w/Videos)

Ohio State University researchers have developed a new strategy to overcome one of the major obstacles to a grand challenge in physics.

Physics / General Physics

created Apr 09, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (13) | comments 3

A magnetic approach to lattices

(Phys.org) -- JQI experimentalists under the direction of Ian Spielman are in the business of using lasers to create novel environments for neutral atoms. For instance, this research group previously enticed ...

Physics / General Physics

created May 22, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

New ultra-small laser opens up a world of possibilities

(PhysOrg.com) -- Computing and medicine are among the many fields which could be revolutionised by a new form of ultra-small laser.

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Apr 04, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Researchers create 3-D laser maps that show how earthquake changes landscape

Geologists have a new tool to study how earthquakes change the landscape down to a few inches, and it's giving them insight into how earthquake faults behave. In the Feb. 10 issue of the journal Science, a team ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Feb 09, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

In the brain, 'ORMOSIL' nanoparticles hold promise as a potential vehicle for drug delivery

(PhysOrg.com) -- In the images of fruit flies, clusters of neurons are all lit up, forming a brightly glowing network of highways within the brain.

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Jan 09, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Under pressure: Ramp-compression smashes record

In the first university-based planetary science experiment at the National Ignition Facility (NIF), researchers have gradually compressed a diamond sample to a record pressure of 50 megabars (50 million times ...

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 11, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Digital quantum simulator realized

(PhysOrg.com) -- The physicists of the University of Innsbruck and the Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information (IQOQI) in Innsbruck have come considerably closer to their goal to investigate complex ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Sep 01, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (16) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

New NASA map reveals patterns of tropical forest carbon storage

A NASA-led research team has used a variety of NASA satellite data to create the most precise map ever produced depicting the amount and location of carbon stored in Earth's tropical forests. The data are ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created May 31, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 7 | with audio podcast