News tagged with light beams

What will the Large Hadron Collider reveal?

With its successful test run at the end of 2009, the Large Hadron Collider near Geneva, Switzerland, seized the world record for the highest-energy particle collisions created by mankind. We can now reflect ...

Physics / General Physics

created Jan 07, 2010 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (48) | comments 23

Scientists build world's first anti-laser

More than 50 years after the invention of the laser, scientists at Yale University have built the world's first anti-laser, in which incoming beams of light interfere with one another in such a way as to perfectly ...

Physics / General Physics

created Feb 17, 2011 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (44) | comments 18 | with audio podcast

Scientists move objects across meter-scale distances using only light (w/ Video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- For more than 40 years, scientists have been using the radiation pressure of light to move and manipulate small objects in space. But until now, the movements have always been restricted to ...

Physics / General Physics

created Sep 30, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (36) | comments 10 | with audio podcast feature

Physicists turn to Maxwell’s equations for self-bending light

(Phys.org) -- Can light self-bend into an arc? Can shape-preserving optical beams truly bend along a circular path? A confident answer emerged in this week’s Physical Review Letters. Researchers at Israel’s Techni ...

Physics / General Physics

created Apr 21, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (30) | comments 27 | with audio podcast weblog

15,000 beams of light: Pens that write with light offer low-cost, rapid nanofabrication capabilities

(PhysOrg.com) -- One Chicago skyline is dazzling enough. Now imagine 15,000 of them.

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Aug 01, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (28) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Scientists Discover Light Force with 'Push' Power

(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of Yale University researchers has discovered a "repulsive" light force that can be used to control components on silicon microchips, meaning future nanodevices could be controlled ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Jul 13, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (26) | comments 10

Intel Milestone Confirms Light Beams Can Replace Electronic Signals for Future Computers

(PhysOrg.com) -- Intel today announced an important advance in the quest to use light beams to replace the use of electrons to carry data in and around computers.

Technology / Semiconductors

created Jul 27, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (24) | comments 6 | with audio podcast

Quantum physics first: Researchers observe single photons in two-slit interferometer experiment

Quantum mechanics is famous for saying that a tree falling in a forest when there's no one there doesn't make a sound. Quantum mechanics also says that if anyone is listening, it interferes with and changes the tree. And ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Jun 02, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (23) | comments 44 | with audio podcast

Physicists build highly efficient 'no-waste' laser

A team of University of California, San Diego researchers has built the smallest room-temperature nanolaser to date, as well as an even more startling device: a highly efficient, "thresholdless" laser that ...

Physics / General Physics

created Feb 08, 2012 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (23) | comments 5 | with audio podcast

Physicists Demonstrate Three-Color Entanglement

(PhysOrg.com) -- For the first time, physicists have demonstrated the quantum entanglement of three light beams, all of different wavelengths. Entanglement of two light beams of different wavelengths has already ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Oct 07, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (25) | comments 3 feature

'Dark Pulse Laser' produces bursts of... almost nothing

In an advance that sounds almost Zen, researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology and JILA, a joint institute of NIST and the University of Colorado at Boulder, have demonstrated a new ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Jun 09, 2010 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (24) | comments 7 | with audio podcast

Caltech scientists film photons with electrons

(PhysOrg.com) -- Techniques recently invented by researchers at the California Institute of Technology -- which allow the real-time, real-space visualization of fleeting changes in the structure of nanoscale ...

Physics / General Physics

created Dec 16, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (21) | comments 0

Scientists take fresh look at 'faster-than-light' experiment

Scientists who threw down the gauntlet to physics by reporting particles that broke the Universe's speed limit said on Friday they were revisiting their contested experiment.

Physics / General Physics

created Oct 28, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (22) | comments 146

Physicists propose quantum entanglement for motion of microscopic objects

Researchers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have proposed a new paradigm that should allow scientists to observe quantum behavior in small mechanical systems.

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Dec 21, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (22) | comments 15

ESO team succeeds in linking telescopes at Paranal Observatory into giant VLT

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers working as part of the European Southern Observatory (ESO) at the Cerra Paranal Mountain Observatory in the Atacama Desert in Chile, have succeeded in virtually connecting all ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Feb 06, 2012 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (19) | comments 2 | with audio podcast report