Metamaterials - artificial nanostructures engineered with electromagnetic properties not found in nature - offer tantalizing future prospects such as high resolution optical microscopes and superfast optical computers. To ...
Optics & Photonics
Feb 9, 2015
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The next generation of aircraft could be thinner and lighter thanks to the development of a new imaging technique that could detect damage previously invisible to acoustic imaging systems.
General Physics
Oct 6, 2014
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A NIST team is at work on what promises to be one of the world's most accurate methods for generating a specified number of photons, and has devised a method to precisely estimate the uncertainty when counting such numbers.
Quantum Physics
Sep 26, 2014
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The first FitzHugh-Nagumo neuron circuit designed to include noise and exhibit the Ghost Stochastic Resonance effect has been presented by researchers from Université de Bourgogne in France. Their circuit operates according ...
Engineering
Aug 19, 2014
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Researchers at the Cockrell School of Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin have created a new nonlinear metasurface, or meta mirror, that could one day enable the miniaturization of laser systems.
Optics & Photonics
Jul 2, 2014
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One of the important tasks for quantum physics researchers and engineers is designing more sensitive instruments to study the tiny fields and forces that govern the world we live in. The most precise measuring instruments ...
Quantum Physics
Jun 11, 2014
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(Phys.org) —Swinburne researchers have developed a high-quality continuous graphene oxide thin film that shows potential for ultrafast telecommunications.
Nanomaterials
May 9, 2014
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X-rays are used extensively for medical imaging and airport security, as well as for examining the atomic-scale crystallographic structure of materials. Until recently, the high-energy x-rays needed to probe materials at ...
Optics & Photonics
Apr 18, 2014
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Wireless transmission at microwave frequencies is important for high-data-rate transmission applications, such as mobile phone networks, satellite links and remote imaging. Now, Xianshu Luo and colleagues from the A*STAR ...
Optics & Photonics
Mar 12, 2014
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A new approach to control light with light without the need for optical nonlinearity: Nanoparticle auto-oscillations in a subwavelength plasmonic V-groove waveguide induced by a control light can be used for the periodic ...
Optics & Photonics
Jan 10, 2014
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