(PhysOrg.com) -- Random lasing, Robin Kaiser tells PhysOrg.com, is like standard lasing, with a little bit of a twist: “You don’t know the direction the photons will go, as you do with a more standard laser. This is because ...
An international team of scientists has developed a system that can generate random numbers over a hundred times faster than current technologies, paving the way towards faster, cheaper, and more secure data encryption in ...
Quantum Physics
Feb 25, 2021
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(Phys.org) —Researchers at the Ames Laboratory, Iowa State University, and the University of Crete in Greece have found a new way to switch magnetism that is at least 1000 times faster than currently used in magnetic memory ...
Quantum Physics
Apr 3, 2013
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(Phys.org) —The sequence of images that constitute Hollywood movies can be stored handily on solid-state media such as magnetic tape or compact diskettes. At the Joint Quantum Institute images can be stored in something ...
Quantum Physics
Mar 28, 2013
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Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology have developed a new microscope able to view and measure an important but elusive property of the nanoscale magnets used in an advanced, experimental form ...
General Physics
Mar 15, 2013
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When University of Utah scientists discovered a new kind of laser that was generated by an electrically conducting plastic or polymer, no one could explain how it worked and some doubted it was real. Now, a decade later, ...
General Physics
Jan 24, 2010
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Like a pinball game in the hands of a good player, a collection of obstacles randomly positioned can be sufficient to trap light without the need for an optical cavity. By adding amplification, at no cost, a mirrorless laser—often ...
Optics & Photonics
Oct 5, 2021
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In the last half-century, laser technology has grown into a multi-billion-dollar global industry and has been used in everything from optical-disk drives and barcode scanners to surgical and welding equipment.
Optics & Photonics
Oct 23, 2018
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At its most basic level, a random laser is precisely what its name implies; random. It's random in the spectrum of light it produces and in the way that light is emitted, making what could be an extremely versatile laser ...
Optics & Photonics
Oct 27, 2017
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Most lasers produce coherent light, meaning that the light waves are perfectly synchronized with each other. Spatially coherent waves, however, can interfere with one another and produce speckles in an image. With this in ...
Optics & Photonics
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