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New Videoconferencing Solution Utilizes CALIENT's MEMS-Based Photonic Switch

CALIENT Technologies, Inc., the global leader for photonic switching technology, today announced that it has partnered with Freeport Technologies, Inc. to deliver the industry's first video teleconference solution that can accommodate multiple government security domains without breeching network security.

11 Aug 2010

Scientists Amplify Brightness of Fluorescent Probes Using 1-2 nm Dyedrons

Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University's Molecular Biosensor and Imaging Center (MBIC) are turning up the brightness on a group of fluorescent probes called fluoromodules that are used to monitor biological activities of individual proteins in real-time.

10 Aug 2010

Scientists Use Metamaterials in New Terahertz Semiconductor Laser

A collaborative team of applied scientists from Harvard University and the University of Leeds have demonstrated a new terahertz (THz) semiconductor laser that emits beams with a much smaller divergence than conventional THz laser sources.

9 Aug 2010

IQE’s Subsidiary Secures Two Nanocolumn Technology Patents

IQE plc (AIM: IQE), the leading global supplier of advanced semiconductor epitaxial wafer products and wafer services to the semiconductor industry, is pleased to announce that NanoGaN Limited (“NanoGaN”), a ...

6 Aug 2010

Quantum Mechanics Enables Study of Superconducting Phenomenon

Physicists are divided on whether string theory is a viable theory of everything, but many agree that it offers a new way to look at physical phenomena that have otherwise proven difficult to describe. In the past dec...

6 Aug 2010

Researchers Demonstrate Test to Detect Infrared Leakage at 1064 nm

Green laser pointers have become a popular consumer item, delivering light that's brighter to the eye than red lasers, but stories have circulated on the Web about the potential hazards of inexpensive models. Now, a team led by physicist Charles Clark at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) puts some numbers to the problem.

6 Aug 2010

Physicists Achieves Ultrafast "Switching" Time in Operation Central to Quantum Information Processing

A team of physicists has achieved ultrafast “switching” time in an operation central to quantum information processing, changing the state of a single trapped ion in less than 50 picoseconds (10-12, or trillionths of a second) with more than 99 percent reliability.

6 Aug 2010