News tagged with optical pulses

IBM Scientists Create Ultra-Fast Device Which Uses Light for Communication between Computer Chips

(PhysOrg.com) -- IBM scientists today unveiled a significant step towards replacing electrical signals that communicate via copper wires between computer chips with tiny silicon circuits that communicate using ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Mar 03, 2010 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (45) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Physicists observe electron ejected from atom for first time

Physicists at the University of California, Berkeley in collaboration with researchers from the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics and the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, became the ...

Physics / General Physics

created Oct 12, 2010 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (33) | comments 7 | with audio podcast

Single photon solid-state memory for telecommunications

(PhysOrg.com) -- One of the issues associated with quantum information schemes revolves around the ability to develop quantum memories that allow for the retrieval of information on demand. Overcoming this ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Mar 08, 2010 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (20) | comments 5 | with audio podcast feature

Scientists Build First 'Frequency Comb' To Display Visible 'Teeth'

(PhysOrg.com) -- Finally, an optical frequency comb that visibly lives up to its name. Scientists at the University of Konstanz in Germany and the National Institute of Standards and Technology in the U.S. ...

Physics / General Physics

created Oct 29, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (18) | comments 0

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

Proposal for optical transistor uses light to control light

(PhysOrg.com) -- By using one light pulse to control another, researchers have proposed a design for an optical transistor that fulfills the most challenging criteria set forth in a study last year. An optical ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

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'Slow light' on a chip holds promise for optical communications

A tiny optical device built into a silicon chip has achieved the slowest light propagation on a chip to date, reducing the speed of light by a factor of 1,200 in a study reported in Nature Photonics (published online Septem ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

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Physicists describe how to make time-reversed light pulses

(PhysOrg.com) -- By taking advantage of the properties of periodic systems, physicists have described how to efficiently time-reverse ultrashort electromagnetic pulses. Since a time-reversed pulse evolves ...

Physics / General Physics

created May 31, 2011 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (17) | comments 44 | with audio podcast feature

Two stopped light pulses interact with each other

(Phys.org) -- For the first time, physicists have experimentally demonstrated the interaction of two motionless light pulses. Because the stopped light pulses have a long interaction time, it increases the ...

Physics / General Physics

created May 08, 2012 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (16) | comments 8 | with audio podcast feature

Bouncing atoms may be the key to the future of gravimetry

(PhysOrg.com) -- When studying cold atoms, scientists often use magnetic or optical traps to keep the atoms in place. However, in some cases experimentalists want to study free atoms, avoiding the effects of a trap. "One ...

Physics / General Physics

created Apr 27, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (15) | comments 1 feature

Your vital signs, on camera

You can check a person’s vital signs -- pulse, respiration and blood pressure -- manually or by attaching sensors to the body. But a student in the Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and Technology program is ...

Technology / Engineering

created Oct 04, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (12) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Light controls matter, matter controls x-rays

Like playing a game of scissors-paper-rock, a team of scientists led by Thornton E. (Ernie) Glover of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory's Advanced Light Source (ALS), Linda Young of Argonne National Laboratory, ...

Physics / General Physics

created Mar 24, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (10) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Engineers ride 'rogue' laser waves to build better light sources

A freak wave at sea is a terrifying sight. Seven stories tall, wildly unpredictable, and incredibly destructive, such waves have been known to emerge from calm waters and swallow ships whole. But rogue waves ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Mar 05, 2009 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (12) | comments 2

Laser pulses control single electrons in complex molecules

Predatory fish are well aware of the problem: In a swarm of small fish it is hard to isolate prey. A similar situation can be found in the microcosm of atoms and molecules, whose behavior is influenced by "swarms" of electrons. ...

Physics / General Physics

created Sep 01, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (9) | comments 1

Physicists break color barrier for sending, receiving photons

University of Oregon scientists have invented a method to change the color of single photons in a fiber optic cable. The laser-tweaked feat could be a quantum step forward for transferring and receiving high ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Sep 30, 2010 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (10) | comments 1 | with audio podcast