News tagged with microwave photonics

Astrophysicist team suggests axions could explain dearth of lithium-7 in dark matter theory

(PhysOrg.com) -- In trying to understand how everything came to be as it appears today, astrophysicists have put together theories that seek to explain how events transpired from the time of the Big Bang, ...

Physics / General Physics

created Feb 24, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (11) | comments 37 | with audio podcast report

Researchers find world's first x-ray laser produces most coherent x-ray radiation ever

(PhysOrg.com) -- The world's first x-ray laser, the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS), first unveiled in 2009 at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center in Palo Alto California, has been undergoing testing ...

Physics / General Physics

created Oct 03, 2011 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (7) | comments 8 | with audio podcast report

Living out Einstein's dreams - French researchers make quantum breakthrough

A team of EU-funded researchers has, for the first time, successfully carried out a constant stabilisation experiment of a quantum state - something Albert Einstein himself once dreamt of.

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Sep 12, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (7) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Einstein's dream surpassed

(PhysOrg.com) -- A constant stabilization experiment of a quantum state has been successfully carried out for the first time by a team from the Laboratoire Kastler Brossel headed by Serge Haroche. The researchers succeeded ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Sep 02, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (31) | comments 24 | with audio podcast

Physicists build first single-photon router

(PhysOrg.com) -- By demonstrating that an artificial atom embedded in a transmission line can route a single photon from an input port to one of two output ports, physicists have built the first router working ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Aug 22, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (18) | comments 1 | with audio podcast feature

A quiet phase: NIST optical tools produce ultra-low-noise microwave signals

By combining advanced laser technologies in a new way, physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have generated microwave signals that are more pure and stable than those from ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Jun 27, 2011 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Previously unaccounted mechanism proposed for cell phone radiation damage

(PhysOrg.com) -- The long running debate on whether cell phones are capable of damaging human tissue and causing health problems received new fuel from a paper published at arXiv by theoretical biologist Bill Bruno from Los Alamos National Laborato ...

Physics / General Physics

created Apr 29, 2011 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (14) | comments 24 | with audio podcast report

Breakthrough for photons in the microwave frequency range

Photons in the microwave frequency range are important in quantum research - for quantum information processors, for example. Now, for the first time, researchers have achieved the controlled production of ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Feb 22, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (7) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Researchers make breakthrough in the quantum control of light

Researchers at UC Santa Barbara have recently demonstrated a breakthrough in the quantum control of photons, the energy quanta of light. This is a significant result in quantum computation, and could eventually ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created May 29, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (15) | comments 0

Breakthrough for post-4G communications

(PhysOrg.com) -- With much of the mobile world yet to migrate to 3G mobile communications, let alone 4G, European researchers are already working on a new technology able to deliver data wirelessly up to 12.5Gb/s.

Technology / Telecom

created Mar 05, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0