News tagged with pulse compression

Short, on-chip light pulses for ultrafast data transfer within computers

(PhysOrg.com) -- Electrical engineers generated short, powerful light pulses on a chip -- an important step toward the optical interconnects that will likely replace the copper wires that carry information ...

Technology / Engineering

created Nov 24, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (12) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Researchers patent enabling technology for spread-spectrum systems

If you've ever gotten the dreaded "network busy" message while trying to make a cell phone call, you've experienced the complication of sharing a single network with numerous other users.

Technology / Telecom

created Nov 17, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0




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A new accelerator to study steps on the path to fusion

The just-completed NDCX-II, the second generation Neutralized Drift Compression Experiment at the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), is an unusual special-purpose ...

Physics / General Physics

created May 08, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (8) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Official: Dolphin deaths in Peru still a mystery

(AP) -- Peruvian authorities are still trying to unravel the mystery of why hundreds of dolphins ended up dead on beaches in the country over the past 2 1/2 months.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Apr 21, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Nuclear fusion simulation shows high-gain energy output

(PhysOrg.com) -- High-gain nuclear fusion could be achieved in a preheated cylindrical container immersed in strong magnetic fields, according to a series of computer simulations performed at Sandia National ...

Physics / General Physics

created Mar 20, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (43) | comments 120 | with audio podcast

Carbon storage project combines innovation and outreach

Geologists are hoping to learn a great deal about geologic carbon sequestration from injecting 1 million metric tons of carbon dioxide into sandstone 7,000 feet beneath Decatur, Ill. And they're hoping the public learns a ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Feb 20, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Students discover millisecond pulsar, help in the search for gravitational waves

A special project to search for pulsars has bagged the first student discovery of a millisecond pulsar – a super-fast spinning star, and this one rotates about 324 times per second. The Pulsar Search ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jan 31, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Researchers produce ultra-short light pulses using on-chip microresonator

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers from the NIST Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology and Purdue University have designed and fabricated an on-chip microresonator that converts continuous laser light into ultra-short pulses ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Jan 19, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Clever math could enable a high-quality 3-D camera for cellphones

When Microsoft’s Kinect -- a device that lets Xbox users control games with physical gestures -- hit the market, computer scientists immediately began hacking it. A black plastic bar about 11 inches wide ...

Technology / Engineering

created Jan 06, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (13) | comments 8 | with audio podcast

2010 spike in Greenland ice loss lifted bedrock, GPS reveals

(PhysOrg.com) -- An unusually hot melting season in 2010 accelerated ice loss in southern Greenland by 100 billion tons – and large portions of the island's bedrock rose an additional quarter of an inch ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Dec 09, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (21) | comments 20 | with audio podcast

Proton beam experiments open new areas of research

By focusing proton beams using high-intensity lasers, a team of scientists have discovered a new way to heat material and create new states of matter in the laboratory.

Physics / General Physics

created Dec 05, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Listening to the stars

It is almost night on the island of Puerto Rico. Astronomer Joanna Rankin raises her head toward the sky. A few of the brightest stars shine through blue cracks in a ragged dome of gray clouds. To her back, ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Dec 01, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 3 | with audio podcast


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