Graphene drum: Researchers develop new phonon laser design
Professor Konstantin Arutyunov of the HSE Tikhonov Moscow Institute of Electronics and Mathematics (MIEM HSE), together with Chinese researchers, has ...
Tag: Optics
Tailored laser fields reveal properties of transparent crystals
Research team led by the University of Göttingen investigates surface magnetisation The surface of a material often has properties that ...
Novel chirped pulses defy ‘conventional wisdom’
University of Rochester researchers describe first highly chirped pulses created by a using a spectral filter in a Kerr resonator ...
Scientists achieve ultra-fast optical orbiting of nanoparticles at subdiffraction scale
Is it possible to drive nanoparticles to orbit below the light diffraction limit using a Gaussian beam? A recent joint ...
The absorption of an individual electrons captured on film
Researchers at the University of Gothenburg have observed the absorption of a single electron by a levitated droplet with such ...
Researchers 3D print rotating microfilter for lab-on-a-chip applications
WASHINGTON -- Researchers have fabricated a magnetically driven rotary microfilter that can be used to filter particles inside a microfluidic ...
Bending light for safer driving; invisibility cloaks to come?
Optical cloaks hide objects in plain view by controlling the flow of electromagnetic radiation around them WASHINGTON, June 15, 2021 ...
Seeking a faster pathway to synthetic data
Helmholtz Association funds project for data acquisition using neural networks In addition to experimentally generated data, fundamental research in physics ...
Researchers create switchable mirrors from liquid metal
Approach could be used to create electrically controlled mirrors for art or advanced devices WASHINGTON -- Researchers have developed a ...
Near-field routing of hyperbolic metamaterials
Flexible control of the propagating direction of near-field light can be realized with hyperbolic metamaterials, using an all-electric metasource Near-field ...
One step towards a daily-use deep UV light source for sterilization and disinfection
Researchers construct a gallium nitride optical microcavity with high reflectivity distributed Bragg reflectors to double the frequency of incoming light, ...
Opto-mechanical non-reciprocity in fiber
The internet era that we live in depends completely on the transfer of vast information over optical fibers. Optical fibers ...
PCF-based ‘parallel reactors’ unveils collective matter-light analogies of soliton molecules
Optical solitons are nonlinear optical wave-packets that can maintain their profile during the propagation even in the presence of moderate ...
Florida Python Hunters May Have a New Tool Thanks to Optics Research at UCF
Special small, mobile cameras help detect more snakes and could lead to an automated python tracker. Just as the governor ...
Say goodbye to your camera bump: uOttawa researchers miniaturize optics by discovering counterpart to lens
The concept of "spaceplate" is a new avenue for manipulating light that could lead to paper thin cameras, telescopes Can ...
Researchers tame silicon to interact with light for next-generation microelectronics
Skoltech researchers and their colleagues from RAS Institute for Physics of Microstructures, Lobachevsky State University of Nizhny Novgorod, ITMO University, ...
X-ray Scanner Spots Cancers and Analyzes Drugs in Minutes
New technology could speed cancer diagnosis, ensure surgeons remove 100% of a tumor and inspect drugs for dangerous chemicals DURHAM, ...
A new approach will help save X-ray studies from failing results
A new approach will help save X-ray studies from failing results due to the peculiarities of single-crystal X-ray optics X-rays ...
Australian researchers create quantum microscope that can see the impossible
In a major scientific leap, University of Queensland researchers have created a quantum microscope that can reveal biological structures that ...
Novel compound reveals fundamental properties of smallest carbon nanotubes
Chemical rings of carbon and hydrogen atoms curve to form relatively stable structures capable of conducting electricity and more -- ...
