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Optimising laser-driven electron acceleration
The interaction between lasers and matter is at the forefront of new investigations into fundamental physics as well as forming a potential bedrock for new technological innovations. One of the initiatives spearheading this ...
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Researchers confront optics and data-transfer challenges with 3D-printed lens
Researchers have developed new 3-D-printed microlenses with adjustable refractive indices—a property that gives them highly specialized light-focusing abilities. This advancement is poised to improve imaging, computing ...
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Physicists succeed in bringing movement of photons and electrons under same laws
Scientists from ITMO, Sheffield University, and the University of Iceland proved that the movement of electrons and photons in two-dimensional materials with hexagonal symmetry, such as graphene, submits to the same laws. ...
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Supercharge your microscope: Researchers share guide for ultra-precise 3-D imaging
UNSW Sydney researchers have shared step-by-step instructions to empower other scientists to enhance the resolution and stability of single-molecule microscopes.
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Dec 03, 2020
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Natural three-dimensional nonlinear photonic crystal
Nonlinear photonic crystals (NPCs) are transparent materials that have a spatially uniform linear susceptibility, yet a periodically modulated quadratic nonlinear susceptibility. These engineered materials are used extensively ...
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Dec 02, 2020
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Scientists invent a new type of microscope that can see through an intact skull
Non-invasive microscopic techniques such as optical coherence microscopy and two-photon microscopy are commonly used for in vivo imaging of living tissues. When light passes through turbid materials such as biological tissues, ...
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Dec 02, 2020
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Photonics meets surface science in a cheap and accurate sensor for biological liquids
Skoltech researchers and their colleagues from Russia and Israel have come up with a new, simple and inexpensive method of testing liquid biological samples that can be further developed to work in clinical settings, including ...
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Dec 02, 2020
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Creating a next-generation photonic-electronic integration circuit
Global internet is growing at a compound rate of 24% per year, reaching 3.3 zettabytes per year by 2021. High-speed optical communication is urgently needed in this ever-connected world, and to keep up with this growth, developments ...
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Dec 02, 2020
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Danish researchers develop budget optical ammonia sensor
In collaboration with the Technical University of Denmark (DTU), the Department of Engineering at Aarhus University has developed photonic sensor technology that can pave the way for a portable, reliable and, above all, inexpensive ...
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Dec 01, 2020
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Pumping a nanoparticle to lase at low power
Lasers are used in a range of everyday devices, harnessing the power of light molecules, photons, - lined up to form highly concentrated beams of light—to perform now common tasks such as scanning barcodes and removing ...
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Dec 01, 2020
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Researchers peer deep inside tissue with new high-resolution techniques
One of the challenges in optical imaging is to visualize the inside of tissue in high resolution. Traditional methods allow researchers to look to a depth of approximately 1 millimeter. Researchers at Delft University of ...
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Dec 01, 2020
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Nonlinear beam cleaning in spatiotemporally mode-locked lasers
In the last few decades, only temporal modes have been considered for mode-locked fiber lasers using single-mode fibers. Mode-locked single-mode fiber lasers offer advantages due to their high-gain doping, intrinsically single-spatial ...
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Dec 01, 2020
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Researching on-chip erbium-doped lithium niobate microcavity lasers
As a complement to silicon-based photonic chips, lithium niobate thin film (LNOI) has become a research hotspot in the field of optoelectronic integration due to its outstanding nonlinear, electro-optic, acousto-optic, piezoelectric ...
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Nov 30, 2020
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Light confinement in a 3-D space
The emerging services such as data center cloud interconnection services, ultra-bandwidth video services, and 5G mobile services stimulate the fast development of photonic integrated circuits (PIC), which can meet the increasing ...
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Nov 30, 2020
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Air-filled fiber cables capable of outperforming standard optical fibers
The next generation of optical fiber could be a step closer as a new study has shown that fibers with a hollowed out center, created in Southampton, could reduce loss of power currently experienced in standard glass fibers.
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Nov 30, 2020
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Researchers fabricate co-doped aluminosilicate fiber with high laser stability for multi-kW level laser
Multi-kilowatt (kW) (≥3kW) level fiber lasers with high stability are significant in many applications, and Yb-doped fiber is the key device in such fiber lasers. The incredible advances of the past few decades in fiber ...
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Nov 27, 2020
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T-ray technology reveals what's getting under your skin
A new method for analyzing the structure of skin using a type of radiation known as T-rays could help improve the diagnosis and treatment of skin conditions such as eczema, psoriasis and skin cancer.
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Nov 26, 2020
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Shining a light on nanoscale dynamics
Physicists from the University of Konstanz, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU Munich) and the University of Regensburg have successfully demonstrated that ultrashort electron pulses experience a quantum mechanical ...
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Nov 24, 2020
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Vibrational encounters—phonon polaritons meet molecules
Researchers from CIC nanoGUNE BRTA (San Sebastian, Spain), in collaboration with the Donostia International Physics Center (San Sebastián, Spain) and the University of Oviedo (Spain) employed a spectroscopic nanoimaging ...
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Nov 23, 2020
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Researchers use infrared light to detect molecules
Ordinary solid-state lasers, as used in laser pointers, generate light in the visible range. For many applications, however, such as the detection of molecules, radiation in the mid-infrared range is needed. Such infrared ...
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Nov 23, 2020
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