Columbia team discovers new way to control the phase of light using 2D materials
Researchers use atomically thin materials -- 1/100,000 the size of a human hair -- to manipulate the phase of light ...
Tag: Optics
Mirrored chip could enable handheld dark-field microscopes
Simple chip powered by quantum dots allows standard microscopes to visualize difficult-to-image biological organismsCredit: Image: Cecile Chazot Do a Google ...
Scientists crack the mystery of liquid light interactions in organic materials, laying the ground
Credit: Skoltech A team of scientists from the Hybrid Photonics Laboratory at the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology (Skoltech) ...
Xiaoji Xu named a 2020 Sloan Research Fellow
Professor Xu is one of only 23 early-career chemistry scholars in the US and Canada to receive this prestigious award ...
Grabbing atoms
Otago physicists grab individual atoms in ground-breaking experimentCredit: University of Otago In a first for quantum physics, University of Otago ...
Laser writing enables practical flat optics and data storage in glass
Credit: by Masaaki Sakakura, Yuhao Lei, Lei Wang, Yan-Hao Yu, and Peter G. Kazansky Conventional optics (e.g. lenses or mirrors) ...
Carrier-assisted differential detection
Credit: by William Shieh, Chuanbowen Sun, and Honglin Ji In the recent decade, various schemes of field recovery with direct ...
CPRIT grant draws cell imaging specialist to Rice
Anna-Karin Gustavsson brings expertise in single-molecule imaging to bear on cancer researchCredit: Courtesy of Anna-Karin Gustavsson HOUSTON - (Feb. 19, ...
A spookily good sensor
A sensor using quantum entanglement can determine if a single magnetic excitation is present in a millimeter-sized sphere. This moves ...
Sussex researchers combine lasers and terahertz waves in camera that sees ‘unseen’ detail
Terahertz camera uses laser light patterns to 'see inside' objects -- Terahertz imaging can reveal tiny hidden features of living ...
Intelligent control of mode-locked femtosecond pulses by time-stretch-assisted spectral analysis
Credit: by Guoqing Pu, Lilin Yi, Li Zhang, Chao Luo, Zhaohui Li and Weisheng Hu Because pulse trains achieve excellent ...
Tailoring spontaneous infrared emission of HgTe quantum dots with laser-printed plasmonic arrays
Credit: by A.A. Sergeev, D.V. Pavlov, A.A. Kuchmizhak, M.V. Lapine, W.K. Yiu, Y. Dong, N. Ke, S. Juodkazis, N. Zhao, ...
In acoustic waves, engineers break reciprocity with ‘spacetime-varying metamaterials’
The NSF-sponsored research could have implications in communications, medicine and other fieldsCredit: Douglas Levere BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Reciprocity isn't always ...
Light-sheet fluorescence imaging goes more parallelized
Credit: Y.-X. Ren, J. Wu, Q. T. K. Lai, H. M. Lai, D. M. D. Siu, W. Wu, K. K. ...
Towards a sustainable future — Novel technology to measure energy conversion efficiency
Scientists formulate a new innovation that can measure thermal energy to understand more about the processes of energy-converting systems like ...
Nanolaminate-based design for UV laser mirror coating
Credit: by Meiping Zhu, Nuo Xu, Behshad Roshanzadeh, S. T. P. Boyd, Wolfgang Rudolph, Yingjie Chai, and Jianda Shao The ...
An intelligent and compact particle analyzer
Credit: by Rubaiya Hussain, Mehmet Alican Noyan, Getinet Woyessa, Rodrigo R. Retamal MarÃn, Pedro Antonio Martinez, Faiz M. Mahdi, Vittoria ...
Scientists unlock low-cost material from solar cells to manipulate light for industry
Perovskites have been discovered to be a cheap alternative for Faraday rotatorsCredit: Stefanie Zingsheim/University of Sydney Researchers in Australia have ...
Demonstration of world record transmission capacity over a 38-core 3-mode optical fiber
Transmission of 10.66 Pb/s with a spectral efficiency of 1158.7 bit/s/Hz over a 38-core 3-mode fiberCredit: National Institute of Information ...
Tiny, erratic protein motor movements revealed
Credit: NINS/IMS The smallest proteins travel in our cells, completing deeply important tasks to keep our molecular mechanisms moving. They ...