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Special Relativity Opens New Era for Designing Advanced Laser-Plasma Accelerators

Using Einstein's theory of special relativity to speedup computer simulations, scientists have designed laser-plasma accelerators with energies of 10 billion electron volts (GeV) and beyond. These systems, which have not been simulated in detail until now, could in the future serve as a compact new technology for particle colliders and energetic light sources.

2 Nov 2009

Experimental Verification of Reversed Cerenkov Radiation in Left-Handed Metamaterial

A team of physicists has directly observed a reverse shock wave of light in a specially tailored structure known as a left-handed metamaterial. Although it was first predicted over forty years ago, this is the first unambiguous experimental demonstration of the effect.

2 Nov 2009

President and CEO of Carl Zeiss Meditec Appointed Honorary Professor at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

Dr. Michael Kaschke, Member of the Carl Zeiss AG Executive Board and President and CEO of Carl Zeiss Meditec AG, has been appointed an Honorary Professor in the Faculty for Electrotechnology and Information Technology at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology.

From Carl Zeiss Microscopy GmbH 30 Oct 2009

Optical Frequency Comb that Visibly Lives Up to its Name

Scientists at the University of Konstanz in Germany and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in the United States have built the first optical frequency comb—a tool for precisely measuring different frequencies of visible light-that actually looks like a comb.

From National Institute of Standards and Tech (NIST) 29 Oct 2009