Seeing with radio waves
Researchers at the University of Tsukuba use radio-frequency waves to image "spin-locked" defects in diamond with record-breaking resolution, which may ...
Tag: Optics
To predict underwater volcano eruptions, scientist looks at images from space
A new study monitored satellite images to obtain sea discoloration data as a novel indicator in detecting if an underwater ...
A new look at color displays
Tunable structural color images by UV-patterned conducting polymer nanofilms on metal surfacesCredit: Thor Balkhed Researchers at Linköping University have developed ...
Tiny tweaks to sparkle: Editing light-emitting organic molecules via surface modification
Researchers develop a strategy that allows a single family of polymeric materials to emit light in any of the three ...
Ultra-strong squeezing of light demonstrated for ultrafast optical signal processing
Photonics researchers demonstrate 11-fold compression of light in time, introducing an important paradigm for light generation in advanced metrology, imaging ...
Scalable manufacturing of integrated optical frequency combs
Credit: Chao Xiang, UCSB Optical frequency combs consist of light frequencies made of equidistant laser lines. They have already revolutionized ...
Beam steering angle expander with two liquid crystal polymeric diffractive optical elements
Credit: by Ziqian He, Kun Yin, and Shin-Tson Wu Flat optics based on patterned liquid crystals (LCs) has recently received ...
Decoding electron dynamics
A new method for identifying quantum orbits enables photoelectron spectroscopy via tunneling ionization to provide attosecond temporal and subangstrom spatial ...
NIST laser ‘comb’ systems now measure all primary greenhouse gases in the air
Credit: N. Hanacek/NIST Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have upgraded their laser frequency-comb instrument to ...
A new piece of the quantum computing puzzle
An efficient two-bit quantum logic gate has been out of reach, until nowCredit: Jung-Tsung Shen Research from the McKelvey School ...
Squeeze the shock out: What different phases of piezoelectric materials tell us
Scientists have observed a correlation between the presence of intermediate S-polymorph phases in lanthanum-doped bismuth ferrite thin films and their ...
Nanoscale thermoplasmonic heating shows promise for studies of nanomaterials
A research of glassy polymers was recently published in ACS PhotonicsCredit: Kazan Federal University Atomic nuclei contain enormous energy that ...
New type of metasurface allows unprecedented laser control
Credit: (Credit: Christina Spägele/Harvard SEAS) The ability to precisely control the various properties of laser light is critical to much ...
Honey, we shrunk the intense XUV laser
Credit: Balázs Major The invention of the laser has opened the era of nonlinear optics, which today plays an important ...
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