News tagged with modulated light

NASA engineers testing Webb telescope's OSIM and BIA instruments

(Phys.org) -- Several critical items related to NASA's next-generation James Webb Space Telescope are being tested in the giant thermal vacuum test chamber at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Apr 12, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 1

Fujitsu develops compact silicon photonics light source for high-bandwidth CPU interconnects

Fujitsu Laboratories announced the development of a compact silicon photonics light source for use in optical transceivers required for optical interconnects capable of carrying large volumes of data at high ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Sep 16, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Nanoscale waveguide for future photonics

The creation of a new quasiparticle called the "hybrid plasmon polariton" may throw open the doors to integrated photonic circuits and optical computing for the 21st century. Researchers with the U.S. Department ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created May 31, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Creating light sources for nanochips

(PhysOrg.com) -- "One of the most important goals in the optics community is to create and manipulate light on chip," Yinan Zhang tells PhysOrg.com. "This is especially important when it comes to improving the performance of sem ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Aug 25, 2010 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (9) | comments 0 | with audio podcast feature

Time Lens Speeds Up Optical Data Transmission

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at Cornell University have developed a device called a "time lens" which is a silicon device for speeding up optical data. The basic components of this device are an optical-fiber ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Sep 28, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (16) | comments 7 weblog