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New Behaviours Could Lead to Faster Optical Information Processing and Cooler Computers

University of Toronto quantum optics researchers Sajeev John and Xun Ma have discovered new behaviours of light within photonic crystals that could lead to faster optical information processing and compact computers that...

14 Dec 2009

Physicists Deliver Overwhelming Proof for A Once-Scoffed-At Theory

Using atoms at temperatures colder than deep space, Rice University physicists have delivered overwhelming proof for a once-scoffed-at theory that's become a hotbed for research some 40 years after it first appeared....

11 Dec 2009

New Way to Control Casimir Force

Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory are developing a way to control the Casimir force, a quantum mechanical force which attracts objects when they are only a hundred nanometers apart.

From Argonne National Laboratory 10 Dec 2009

Mobius Photonics Demonstrates Fiber Laser Tailored for Precision Materials Processing

Mobius Photonics, an innovative producer of short pulsed fiber laser sources (IR, green, and UV laser), has demonstrated a fiber laser tailored for precision materials processing. The Mobius Photonics laser produces high...

8 Dec 2009

Laser Technique Used to Change Colors of Metals Could Have Important Implications for Medicine

University of Rochester optics professor Chunlei Guo made headlines in the past couple of years when he changed the color of everyday metals by scouring their surfaces with precise, high-intensity laser bursts. Sudde...

8 Dec 2009

Result an Important Step Toward Airport Scanners that Can Identify Explosives

MIT researchers have developed a new way to tune the frequency of lasers that operate in the terahertz spectrum. The result is an important step toward airport scanners that could tell whether a vial in a closed suitcase contains aspirin, methamphetamines or an explosive.

7 Dec 2009

Scientist Demonstrates World's Smallest Semiconductor Laser

Air Force Office of Scientific Research and National Science Foundation-funded professor, Dr. Xiang Zhang has demonstrated at the University of California, Berkeley the world's smallest semiconductor laser, which may have applications to the Air Force in communications, computing and bio-hazard detection.

7 Dec 2009