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Quantum Physics – Hot and Cold at the Same Time

Researchers from Heidelberg and Vienna investigate statistical description of quantum systems

A cloud of quantum particles can have several temperatures at once, as demonstrated in experiments conducted in a joint…

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Photonic Thermometers: Out of the Lab, Into a Bucket of Water

These sensors, which measure temperature using light, are called photonic thermometers, and compared to traditional ther…

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Optalysys prototype proves optical processing technology will revolutionise Big Data analysis and Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)

Cambridge UK optical processing business Optalysys Ltd, has announced that they have successfully developed a demonstrab…

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AUREA Technology, Inrad Optics, Northrop Grumman Selected for 2015 CLEO/Laser Focus World Innovation Award

Award-winning developments in photonic analysis, neutron detection and DPSS-based laser systems for high-energy scientific applications

The CLEO/Laser Focus World Innovation Awards recognize outstanding companies that have made major contributions to advan…

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TECHSPEC® Laser-Line Coated Precision Aspheric Lenses designed for high power Nd: YAG lasers

Lenses offer high damage thresholds

The coatings have been optimized for the most popular

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Generating broadband terahertz radiation from a microplasma in air

Researchers at the University of Rochester’s Institute of Optics have shown that a laser-generated microplasma in air ca…

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SWIFTS spectrometer to study earth tides and quakes

The system works by using white light that travels through a fiber and is reflected by two

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Chemists Create “Comb” that Detects Terahertz Waves with Extreme Precision

Caltech chemists have created a device that generates and detects terahertz waves over a wide spectral range with extrem…

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CCNY Researchers Use Novel Polarization to Increase Data Speeds

The researchers showed that each shape could carry an additional data stream. While the researchers used only four shape…

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Nature: Low-reflection Wings Make Butterflies Nearly Invisible

Irregular Nanostructures on the Transparent Wing of the Glasswing Butterfly Prevent the Reflection of Light – Publication in Nature Communications – Researchers Plan Applications

Transparent materials such as glass, always reflect part of the incident light. Some animals with transparent surfaces,…

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Vortices in hall of mirrors show spinning light the way out

Researchers from FOM institute AMOLF have used the classical toolbox of physics to make predictions about the quantum wo…

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Quantum ‘paparazzi’ film photons in the act of pairing up

In the quantum world of light, being distinguishable means staying lonely. Only those photons that are indistinguishable…

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Research team developes new doping technique for nano-semiconductor

Researchers in the Sungkyunkwan University were able to develop a new doping technique for 2D nano-semiconductor using…

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A “pin ball machine” for atoms and photons

A team of physicists from MPQ, Caltech, and ICFO proposes the combination of nano-photonics with ultracold atoms for simulating quantum many-body systems and creating new states of matter.

A team of physicists from MPQ, Caltech, and ICFO proposes the combination of nano-photonics with ultracold atoms for sim…

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Taylor Hobson launches the new Talysurf i-Series

The Talysurf i-Series instruments are also available with Q-Link. This simple production interface allows easy

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Breakthrough opens door to affordable quantum computers

A UNSW-led research team has encoded quantum information in silicon using simple electrical pulses for the first time, bringing affordable large-scale quantum computers one step closer to reality.

A UNSW-led research team has encoded quantum information in silicon using simple electrical pulses for the first time, b…

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Graphene speeds up light-to-electricity conversion

Highly efficient carrier heating after light absorption leads to ultrafast (<50 fs) photovoltage creation

ICFO researchers have now demonstrated a graphene-based photodetector that converts absorbed light into an electrical vo…

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Tekcapital Acquires Exclusive License to Portfolio of 13 Optical Technology Patents

Technologies Have Potential to Empower the Development of Augmented and Virtual Reality Applications across Multiple Sectors

This broad technology portfolio is designed to be incorporated into many existing optical systems such as head-mounted d…

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NIST Tightens the Bounds on the Quantum Information 'Speed Limit'

The work offers a better description of how quickly information can travel within a system built of quantum particles su…

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New Light for Old Master Paintings

Researchers develop high-resolution technique based on Optical Coherence Tomography for non-invasively imaging and analyzing the hidden layers in centuries-old priceless paintings

Researchers from Nottingham Trent University's School of Science and Technology have partnered with the National Gallery…

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