How many times have you shown up to a video meeting with people at work only to find you have terrible internet that day? Maybe the others on the call are cutting in and out, or maybe your own signal is being corrupted on ...
Quantum Physics
Sep 25, 2023
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The Bessel beam, with a significant depth of field and self-healing characteristics, has been applied in widespread applications, including quantum entanglement, underwater 3D imaging, optical micro-manipulation, microscope, ...
Optics & Photonics
Aug 17, 2023
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Liquid metals (LM) such as pure gallium (Ga) and Ga-based alloys are a new class of materials with unique physicochemical properties. One of the most prominent applications of LMs is photothermal therapy against cancer, in ...
Bio & Medicine
Aug 4, 2023
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When you turn on a lamp to brighten a room, you are experiencing light energy transmitted as photons, which are small, discrete quantum packets of energy. These photons must obey the sometimes strange laws of quantum mechanics, ...
General Physics
Jul 5, 2023
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Searching for life's building blocks light-years away is an important task of the James Webb Space Telescope. But how does it know what to look for? Ph.D. student Marina Gomes Rachid is offering a helping hand by mapping ...
Astronomy
May 3, 2023
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An easy way of altering compact semiconductor lasers to make them more practical for illumination and holography has been demonstrated by KAUST scientists. The research is published in the journal Optica.
Optics & Photonics
Mar 20, 2023
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3D holograms from your phone, television, or favorite droid have been promised for decades but, despite being of great interest, have yet to materialize. The applications for them are far-reaching, particularly in the medtech ...
Optics & Photonics
Dec 19, 2022
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How does your phone know it's you when you use facial recognition to unlock it? An array of tiny lasers light up your face, and your phone uses the reflection to construct a 3D model—not unlike a topographical map of your ...
Optics & Photonics
Dec 12, 2022
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Physicists from TU Delft have developed a three-in-one microscope in which a light beam, electron beam and ion beam work together to precisely cut out specific slices from biological samples.
Biotechnology
Dec 7, 2022
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A team from the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has developed a high-sensitivity differential Helmholtz photoacoustic cell and successfully applied it to methane detection.
Optics & Photonics
Sep 28, 2022
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