News tagged with quantum dot laser

Single nanomaterial yields many laser colors

Red, green, and blue lasers have become small and cheap enough to find their way into products ranging from BluRay DVD players to fancy pens, but each color is made with different semiconductor materials and ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Apr 29, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (11) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Researchers demonstrate electo-optic modulation of single photons from a quantum dot

(PhysOrg.com) -- In a recent article in Applied Physics Letters, CNST researchers demonstrated how commercially available electro-optic modulators can be used to tailor the single photon output of quantum dots (QDs) for us ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Jun 30, 2011 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

World's first 1.3µm wavelength quantum dot laser capable of operating in high-temperature environments

QD Laser, Fujitsu Laboratories, and the Institute for Nano Quantum Information Electronics, the University of Tokyo today announced the world's first successful operation of a 1.3µm wavelength semiconductor ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created May 25, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Print your own lasers, lights and TV screens

Imagine printing your own room lighting, lasers, or solar cells from inks you buy at the local newsagent. Jacek Jasieniak and his colleagues at CSIRO, the University of Melbourne and the University of Padua ...

Physics / General Physics

created Jul 01, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (29) | comments 6 | with audio podcast

'Dark Pulse Laser' produces bursts of... almost nothing

In an advance that sounds almost Zen, researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology and JILA, a joint institute of NIST and the University of Colorado at Boulder, have demonstrated a new ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Jun 09, 2010 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (24) | comments 7 | with audio podcast

Japanese Researchers Achieve World's First 25Gbps Data Communication Using Quantum Dot Laser

Fujitsu and the University of Tokyo today announced the world's first quantum dot laser -based 25 Gbps high-speed data transmission.

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created May 20, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 0

Physicists lay the groundwork for cooler, faster computing

University of Toronto quantum optics researchers Sajeev John and Xun Ma have discovered new behaviours of light within photonic crystals that could lead to faster optical information processing and compact computers that ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Dec 14, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (27) | comments 5

Michigan scientists working on super-fast, secure computing

Air Force Office of Scientific Research(AFOSR)-supported physicists at the University of Michigan are developing innovative components for quantum, or super-fast, computers that will improve security for data ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Sep 09, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Atoms don't dance the 'Bose Nova'

(PhysOrg.com) -- Hanns-Christoph Naegerl's research group at the Institute for Experimental Physics, Austria, has investigated how ultracold quantum gases behave in lower spatial dimensions. They successfully ...

Physics / General Physics

created Sep 03, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (11) | comments 0

Confined electrons live longer

Electrons that are trapped in very small structures of only a few nanometer, demonstrate fascinating features. These could be useful for novel computers or semiconductor lasers. Researchers from the University ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Aug 18, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

'Squeezing' light into quantum dots

(PhysOrg.com) -- “Quantum wells have been instrumental in telecommunications, enabling light amplification,” Patanjali Kambhampati tells PhysOrg.com, “but theory has suggested that a very small - colloidal - quantum dot co ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Apr 01, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (11) | comments 2 feature

Quantum dots as midinfrared emitters

(PhysOrg.com) -- “People are interested in the mid-infrared,” Dan Wasserman tells PhysOrg.com. Infrared light has a wavelength longer than visible light, and many molecules have numerous very strong optical resonances in the ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Feb 23, 2009 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (10) | comments 1 feature