News tagged with optical phase

Reversible doping: Hydrogen flips switch on vanadium oxide

If you are not a condensed matter physicist, vanadium oxide (VO2) may be the coolest material you've never heard of. It's a metal. It's an insulator. It's a window coating and an optical switch. And thanks ...

Physics / Condensed Matter

created May 21, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Seeing sound: Team develops noninvasive method to visualise sound propagation

High-performance loudspeaker manufacturers have been able to improve sound quality dramatically over the years, but still face the issue of dead spots.

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 08, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

A microscopic view on quantum fluctuations

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics achieve direct imaging of quantum fluctuations at absolute zero temperature.

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Oct 14, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (9) | comments 12 | with audio podcast

EU-funded project improves global data transmission

Researchers have developed two new components that could help Europe meet some of its most pressing communication challenges in optical amplifier research.

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Sep 15, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Single molecule can shift the phase of a laser beam

(PhysOrg.com) -- The ability to control light forms the basis of many technologies, from microscopy to optical computing. Now, a team of scientists from ETH in Zurich, Switzerland, has demonstrated that a ...

Physics / General Physics

created Sep 06, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1 | with audio podcast feature

Vertical cavity quantum switch could lead us away from electronics-based computing

(PhysOrg.com) -- Right now, many researchers around the world are working on ways to move away from electronics-dominated computing systems. There are a number of ideas about how this can be accomplished. "We are trying to ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Jun 30, 2011 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (27) | comments 5 | with audio podcast feature

Squeezed light from single atoms

(PhysOrg.com) -- Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics scientists generate amplitude-squeezed light fields using single atoms trapped inside optical cavities.

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Jun 30, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Nature of bonding determines thermal conductivity

Optical data carriers such as DVDs, Blu-rays and CD-RWs store data in layers of so-called "phase change materials". In the future, these materials will enable the development of fast, non-volatile and energy-saving main memories. ...

Physics / Condensed Matter

created May 03, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Magical BEANs: New nano-sized particles could provide mega-sized data storage

The ability of phase-change materials to readily and swiftly transition between different phases has made them valuable as a low-power source of non-volatile or “flash” memory and data storage. Now an entire ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Sep 17, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (10) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Scientists develop device to enable improved global data transmission

Researchers have developed a new data transmission system that could substantially improve the transmission capacity and energy efficiency of the world's optical communication networks.

Technology / Telecom

created Sep 07, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 3

Quantum dynamics of matter waves reveal exotic multibody collisions

At extremely low temperatures atoms can aggregate into so-called Bose Einstein condensates forming coherent laser-like matter waves. Due to interactions between the atoms fundamental quantum dynamics emerge ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created May 14, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (17) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Using quantum smoothing for optical phase estimation

(PhysOrg.com) -- "There are many situations where we need to measure the classical properties of a quantum system," Elanor Huntington tells PhysOrg.com. "Optical phase estimation is one of these techniques, and it is cen ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Mar 11, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (12) | comments 0 | with audio podcast feature

Nanoimaging in 3-D

(PhysOrg.com) -- As technology shrinks ever smaller, interest in objects and devices on the nanoscale becomes more apparent. However, visualizing these objects in three dimensions comes with special challenges. ...

Physics / General Physics

created Dec 01, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (15) | comments 0 feature

Exerting better control over matter waves

(PhysOrg.com) -- “The concept of matter waves is at the heart of quantum mechanics,” Oliver Morsch tells PhysOrg.com. “At the beginning of the last century, scientists discovered that solid particles could exhibit proper ...

Physics / General Physics

created Mar 27, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (29) | comments 15 feature

Fabricating 3D Photonic Crystals

(PhysOrg.com) -- “In photonic crystals, the ability to control the structure of a material in full three dimensional space, allows you to control the way that light flows through it,” John Rogers tells PhysOrg.com. “This ...

Physics / General Physics

created Jan 21, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (9) | comments 1 feature


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