News tagged with laser spectroscopy


New technology detects chemical weapons in seconds

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created Oct 05, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Scientists at Queen's University Belfast are developing new sensors to detect chemical agents and illegal drugs which will help in the fight against the threat of terrorist attacks.


Formation of the smallest droplet of acid

Formation of the smallest droplet of acid

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created Jun 19, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Exactly four water molecules and one hydrogen chloride molecule are necessary to form the smallest droplet of acid. This was the result of work by the groups of Prof. Dr. Martina Havenith (physical chemistry) ...





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Physicists develop laser with bandwith spanning 2 telecom windows

Physics / General Physics

created May 19, 2008 | popularity 3.4 / 5 (7) | comments 0

A team of physicists in the Institute for Ultrafast Spectroscopy and Lasers (IUSL) of the Physics Department at The City College of New York (CCNY) have developed new near-infrared broadband laser materials with tunability ...


New Twist on Favorite X-ray Technique Promises Ultrafast Molecular Studies

New Twist on Favorite X-ray Technique Promises Ultrafast Molecular Studies

Physics / General Physics

created Oct 12, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (5) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of physicists from the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource, including graduate student David Bernstein, have made a promising discovery that a well-known synchrotron technique ...


Creating the astro-comb to locate Earth-like planets

Physics / General Physics

created May 07, 2009 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (6) | comments 0

Researchers at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Mass. have created an "astro-comb" to help astronomers detect lighter planets, more like Earth, around distant stars. The Harvard group will present ...


Physicist proposes to use femtosecond, chirped laser pulse trains to reduce decoherence

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 10, 2008 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (15) | comments 0

In a recent publication in the high impact journal Optics Letters, Svetlana Malinovskaya, Associate Professor of Physics at Stevens Institute of Technology, proposes to use femtosecond, chirped laser pulse trains to reduce ...


New laser technique promises better process control in the pharmaceutical industry

Medicine & Health / Research

created Feb 18, 2008 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Scientists at the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in Oxfordshire, UK have developed an effective laser based method for the characterisation of the bulk chemical content of ...


Hidden Properties of Ultracold Atoms

New Technique Reveals Hidden Properties of Ultracold Atomic Gases

Physics / General Physics

created Aug 06, 2008 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (12) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Physicists at JILA, a joint institute of the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the University of Colorado at Boulder, have demonstrated a powerful new technique that reveals ...


Handheld laser microscope to help diagnose skin cancer without a biopsy

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Mar 30, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A recent Montana State University master's graduate is working with doctors at Vanderbilt Medical Center in Tennessee to build a handheld laser microscope that could someday reduce the number of biopsies needed to diagnose ...


Building a more versatile laser

Building a more versatile laser

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Nov 16, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (19) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- One of the drawbacks associated with using semiconductor lasers is that many of them can only produce a beam of a single wavelength, and can only send that beam in one direction at a time. ...


Diagnosing skin cancer without a biopsy

Diagnosing skin cancer without a biopsy

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Apr 17, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A recent Montana State University master's graduate is working with doctors at Vanderbilt Medical Center in Tennessee to build a handheld laser microscope that could someday reduce the number ...


On the Energy Trail: Researchers Find New Details Following the Path of Solar Energy During Photosynthesis

On the Energy Trail: Researchers Find New Details Following the Path of Solar Energy During Photosynthesis

Physics / General Physics

created Apr 25, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (41) | comments 3

Imagine a technology that would not only provide a green and renewable source of electrical energy, but could also help scrub the atmosphere of excessive carbon dioxide resulting from the burning of fossil ...



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