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Industrial Physicist
Aug/Sep 2004
Eric J. Lerner
News: Plasmon microscopy A new technique allows far-field optical microscopy with resolutions well below the wavelength of light. mark for My Articles similar articles
Technology Research News
October 8, 2003
Kimberly Patch
Crystal slows and speeds light Playing tricks with light -- speeding, slowing and storing it -- is becoming a popular pastime among physicists. The effects could eventually be used to improve communications and data storage and help bring about quantum computing and quantum communications. mark for My Articles similar articles
Industrial Physicist
Eric J. Lerner
Briefs Inverse Doppler effect... DNA-guided nanotubes... Magnetic graphite... etc. mark for My Articles similar articles
Technology Research News
July 30, 2003
Laser bursts pierce fog Researchers in France have shown that it is possible to fire laser beams through otherwise impenetrable clouds, haze and fog. This means it could be possible to transmit data through these opaque media and remotely sense objects or chemicals within clouds, haze or fog. mark for My Articles similar articles
Industrial Physicist
Feb/Mar 2004
Eric J. Lerner
Briefs Opening the x-ray water window... Zero thermal expansion... Magnetoresistor computing... A pressure-driven battery mark for My Articles similar articles
Industrial Physicist
Eric Lerner
Briefs Subfemtosecond control... Three-dimensional, time-resolved videos of turbulent motion are starting to illuminate the process of intermittent intense turbulence... New research shows that not only can micromachines work in a vacuum, they can work much better than in air... mark for My Articles similar articles
IEEE Spectrum
August 2006
Alexander Hellemans
Engineering Warms To Frozen Light Separate groups in the U.S. and Europe say that they have built and successfully tested more compact, rugged, and efficient means of delaying light pulses. Their work may clear the way for applications in optical switching and quantum communications. mark for My Articles similar articles
IEEE Spectrum
October 2005
Paniccia & Koehl
The Silicon Solution In the future, ordinary silicon chips will move data using light rather than electrons, unleashing nearly limitless bandwidth and revolutionizing computing mark for My Articles similar articles
IEEE Spectrum
February 2012
Miles et al.
Using Lasers to Find Land Mines and IEDs A laser could ionize a distant puff of air and thus safely detect the fumes from buried explosives mark for My Articles similar articles
Industrial Physicist
Dec 2003/Jan 2004
Eric J. Lerner
Briefs Infrared tissue scans... Better electronic paper... Rapid manufacturing... Flipping storage fields mark for My Articles similar articles
Industrial Physicist
Feb/Mar 2004
R. Bruce Weisman
Simplifying carbon nanotube identification A new method has been found to identify and classify various structural forms of carbon nanotubes, each with its characteristic electronic properties, in a typical mixture, using spectrofluorimetry. mark for My Articles similar articles
Industrial Physicist
Eric J. Lerner
News Superlenses... Self-organizing device... Silicon photonics... Millennia of global warming... mark for My Articles similar articles
Technology Research News
June 18, 2003
Practical nanotube fiber near Spider silk, a product of 400 million years of evolution, stops insects on the wing because it is five times tougher than steel. Scientists working with carbon nanotubes are looking to surpass the strength of spider line. mark for My Articles similar articles
Technology Research News
November 5, 2003
Eric Smalley
Crystal fiber goes distance Making fiber-optic lines that are hollow is one step toward more efficient telecommunications. Making lines that are full of holes goes further. Lots of regularly spaced holes bend light, which keeps it on the straight and narrow. mark for My Articles similar articles
Military & Aerospace Electronics
February 2005
Adrian Carter
New technology advances applications for high-power fiber lasers Since introduced by Nufern as a standard product in late 2002, LMA fibers have enabled a power-scaling revolution, and have produced near-diffraction-limited beam quality at powers approaching 1 kW and slope efficiencies of around 75 percent. mark for My Articles similar articles
Military & Aerospace Electronics
March 2005
Sansone & Emslie
Fiber sensing receives renewed interest History will remember optical-fiber technology as one of the truly great inventions of the 20th century: it is the driver behind the telecommunications revolution and the very backbone of the Internet, telephony, and Cable TV mark for My Articles similar articles
Technology Research News
June 1, 2005
Lasers Built Into Fiber-Optics Researchers have crossed a gas-filled fiber optic laser with ordinary fiber optics to make a Raman laser and a frequency stabilizer -- devices that provide precise control of laser beams. mark for My Articles similar articles
Industrial Physicist
Wippich & Dessau
Tunable Lasers and Fiber-Bragg-Grating Sensors Today, the tunable laser is being tested in many industrial applications, including optical remote sensing, where laser-based systems can provide improved performance over electronic means of measuring strain, temperature, and pressure. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
December 6, 2006
Lionel Milgrom
Surf's up for Unstable Electron Beams Controlling short high-energy bursts of plasma electrons is difficult. But now physicists in France have managed it, using a laser to inject electrons into the wake of a plasma wave created from a jet of helium gas. mark for My Articles similar articles
IEEE Spectrum
May 2010
Neil Savage
The Laser at 50 It's the golden anniversary of this fundamental technology mark for My Articles similar articles
IEEE Spectrum
February 2006
Holonyak & Feng
The Transistor Laser Ultrafast transistors that output optical and electrical signals open a new computing frontier. mark for My Articles similar articles
Technology Research News
October 17, 2005
Data storage technologies Today's magnetic disk drives could be improved by incorporating much larger magnetoresistance or replaced by microelectromechanical systems (MEMS), near-field optics, holographic systems, or even molecules for better data storage solutions. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
December 10, 2007
Killugudi Jayaraman
Scientists Trap Light in Nano-Soup Physicists in India, have demonstrated how to trap and retrieve light using a soup of micro- and nano-sized magnetic spheres. mark for My Articles similar articles
Military & Aerospace Electronics
October 2004
Fiber lasers emerge as strong competitor for future laser weapons They may be applied to jet fighters, land vehicles, and perhaps even man-portable systems. And they even have the potential to edge-out other solid-state laser approaches such as slab lasers and free-electron lasers. mark for My Articles similar articles
Technology Research News
December 1, 2004
Tight Twist Toughens Nanotube Fiber Researchers have strengthened carbon nanotube yarn by introducing a tight twist as the nanotubes are spun. mark for My Articles similar articles
IEEE Spectrum
December 2007
Neil Savage
Slower Light for Faster Telecom Networks Promising research could yield better optical data storage. mark for My Articles similar articles
IEEE Spectrum
February 2009
Mark Anderson
Two Steps Toward a Terabit Internet Nonlinear optics tricks bring terabit-per-second bandwidth within reach mark for My Articles similar articles
Technology Research News
December 1, 2004
Eric Smalley
Pure Silicon Laser Debuts Researchers have made a prototype laser from silicon. The laser is tunable, meaning it can lase in a range of wavelengths, or colors, and it works at room temperature. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
August 3, 2012
Andrew Extance
Gel polymer seizes shadow With just a slight dip in a tungsten filament bulb's intensity, Canadian researchers have created channels that light can't enter. mark for My Articles similar articles
Technology Research News
February 11, 2004
Eric Smalley
Light-storing chip charted Storing light, even briefly, was considered impossible until recently. Since scientists have proved it could be done, they've been finding different ways of accomplishing the feat. A proposal for slowing and stopping light in photonic crystal promises to bring these experiments to the chip level. mark for My Articles similar articles
IndustryWeek
October 1, 2004
John Teresko
Plasma Window Reinvents Electron Beam Welding Considering electron beam welding? Get ready to evaluate a process innovation designed to deliver high quality without dependence on a vacuum chamber. mark for My Articles similar articles
Military & Aerospace Electronics
December 2005
European Company Optimizes Optical Fiber for High-Energy Amplification Liekki, a supplier of highly doped optical fibers in Finland, has developed an optical fiber for amplifying pulses from 1-micron lasers. mark for My Articles similar articles
Technology Research News
April 7, 2004
Fiber spun from nanotube smoke Researchers from the University of Cambridge in England have developed a relatively simple way to manufacture continuous fibers of carbon nanotubes. mark for My Articles similar articles
Military & Aerospace Electronics
May 2005
Jim Reeves
Industry View: Have bandwidth, will travel Technological advancements such as 'double conjugated adaptive optics' are leading to man-portable, far-reaching, low-power laser communication systems that are perfectly suited to the military's security-driven battlefield communication requirements. mark for My Articles similar articles
Popular Mechanics
February 25, 2008
Erik Sofge
MIT Fights for Clean Power With Holy Grail of Fusion in Reach A look down the belly of extreme machines producing forces 100,000 times stronger than the Earth's and forecasting the future of efficient energy. mark for My Articles similar articles
IEEE Spectrum
April 2011
Neil Savage
Diodes Built Inside Fiber More complex nanocircuits possible, say engineers. mark for My Articles similar articles
Military & Aerospace Electronics
April 2005
Optoelectronics Briefs Breakthrough in solid-state laser technology... Fiber-optic field-simulation test instrument... TTL modulation added to photon devices... New high-power optical fiber... Light-sensitive camera... High-power multimode diode bar... Laser Diode earns ISO 9001:2000 certification... mark for My Articles similar articles
Wired
January 2001
Ed Regis
Zip Drive NASA scientists are building a hot little ride: Vasimr, a rocket that runs on million-degree plasma and could someday fuel a fast-track trip to Mars... mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
November 19, 2007
Lewis Brindley
Spinning Out Stronger Nanotubes Scientists have devised a new way to make super-strength carbon nanotube fibers. mark for My Articles similar articles
IEEE Spectrum
November 2006
Paul O'Donovan
Goodbye, CRT The cathode-ray tube is on the way out. What will replace it? (Hint: it won't be plasma). Here's a look at all of the players. mark for My Articles similar articles
IEEE Spectrum
February 2008
Willie D. Jones
Engineers Work on Laser-Based Brain-Machine Interface for Prosthetic Arm Laser stimulation of nerves may light the way to better nervous-system feedback for prosthetics mark for My Articles similar articles
Technology Research News
July 16, 2003
Eric Smalley
Logic clicks with ratchet Microscopic electrical tornadoes pop up and skitter around superconductors whenever magnetic fields go through them. Scientists have found that manipulating these vortices, which can flip a bit between 1 and 0, could lead to very fast computer logic circuits. mark for My Articles similar articles
Military & Aerospace Electronics
January 2005
Products Direct flash lamp pumped die laser... Military- and space-qualified laser diodes... Near-infrared diode laser... etc. mark for My Articles similar articles
Technology Research News
November 3, 2004
Nanotubes Lengthen to Centimeters Researchers have found a way to grow very long carbon nanotubes. One long-range possibility is using ultralong carbon nanotubes fibers to make an elevator to low Earth orbit. mark for My Articles similar articles
Technology Research News
August 11, 2004
Twisted fiber filters light Researchers have devised a way to control light inside optical fiber communications lines. The method could enable faster data transmission rates in fiber-optic lines and new twists on devices like lasers and sensors. mark for My Articles similar articles
Technology Research News
September 10, 2003
Kimberly Patch
Sponges grow sturdy optical fiber Primitive sea creatures from the murky depths are providing tips on how to improve one of the fundamental technologies of the information age -- optical fiber. Sea sponge spines act like fiber optics, but with some key advantages. mark for My Articles similar articles
Technology Research News
November 17, 2004
Kimberly Patch
Fibers Mix Light and Electricity Scientists have demonstrated that it is possible to make some semiconductor devices in optical fiber form. mark for My Articles similar articles
Technology Research News
November 5, 2003
Rig fires more photon pairs Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers have moved the field of quantum communications forward with entangled photon beams that contain specific wavelengths of light and are relatively bright. mark for My Articles similar articles
Technology Research News
November 3, 2004
Eric Smalley
Single Field Shapes Quantum Bits Researchers have recently realized that it may be possible to control the electrons in a quantum computer using a single magnetic field rather than having to produce extremely small, precisely focused magnetic fields for each electron. mark for My Articles similar articles
Wired
April 2001
Verge A coalition of 14 fusion-research institutions funded by the US Department of Energy will test whether new generation methods can make magnetic fusion an efficient, affordable source of energy... mark for My Articles similar articles