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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.  |
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.  |
Industrial Physicist Eric J. Lerner |
Briefs Inverse Doppler effect... DNA-guided nanotubes... Magnetic graphite... etc.  |
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.  |
Industrial Physicist Feb/Mar 2004 Eric J. Lerner |
Briefs Opening the x-ray water window... Zero thermal expansion... Magnetoresistor computing... A pressure-driven battery  |
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...  |
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.  |
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  |
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  |
Industrial Physicist Dec 2003/Jan 2004 Eric J. Lerner |
Briefs Infrared tissue scans... Better electronic paper... Rapid manufacturing... Flipping storage fields  |
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.  |
Industrial Physicist Eric J. Lerner |
News Superlenses... Self-organizing device... Silicon photonics... Millennia of global warming...  |
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.  |
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.  |
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.  |
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  |
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.  |
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.  |
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.  |
IEEE Spectrum May 2010 Neil Savage |
The Laser at 50 It's the golden anniversary of this fundamental technology  |
IEEE Spectrum February 2006 Holonyak & Feng |
The Transistor Laser Ultrafast transistors that output optical and electrical signals open a new computing frontier.  |
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.  |
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.  |
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.  |
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.  |
IEEE Spectrum December 2007 Neil Savage |
Slower Light for Faster Telecom Networks Promising research could yield better optical data storage.  |
IEEE Spectrum February 2009 Mark Anderson |
Two Steps Toward a Terabit Internet Nonlinear optics tricks bring terabit-per-second bandwidth within reach  |
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.  |
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.  |
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.  |
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.  |
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.  |
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.  |
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.  |
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.  |
IEEE Spectrum April 2011 Neil Savage |
Diodes Built Inside Fiber More complex nanocircuits possible, say engineers.  |
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...  |
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...  |
Chemistry World November 19, 2007 Lewis Brindley |
Spinning Out Stronger Nanotubes Scientists have devised a new way to make super-strength carbon nanotube fibers.  |
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.  |
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  |
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.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics January 2005 |
Products Direct flash lamp pumped die laser... Military- and space-qualified laser diodes... Near-infrared diode laser... etc.  |
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.  |
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.  |
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.  |
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.  |
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.  |
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.  |
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...  |