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Nature Photonics, published by the Nature Publishing Group (NPG), is a scientific journal publishing original research related to optoelectronics, laser science, imaging, communications and other areas of photonics. The journal was launched in January 2007.

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Discovery brings new type of fast computers closer to reality

Discovery brings new type of fast computers closer to reality

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Sep 27, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (34) | comments 1

Physicists at UC San Diego have successfully created speedy integrated circuits with particles called "excitons" that operate at commercially cold temperatures, bringing the possibility of a new type of extremely ...


Mantis shrimps could show us the way to a better DVD

Mantis shrimps could show us the way to a better DVD

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Oct 25, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (18) | comments 5

(PhysOrg.com) -- The remarkable eyes of a marine crustacean could inspire the next generation of DVD and CD players, according to a new study from the University of Bristol published today in Nature Photonics.


Manipulating light on a chip for quantum technologies

Manipulating light on a chip for quantum technologies

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Jun 05, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (18) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of physicists and engineers at Bristol University has demonstrated exquisite control of single particles of light — photons — on a silicon chip to make a major advance towards long-sought-after ...


New organic material may speed Internet access

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Mar 15, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (16) | comments 5

The next time an overnight snow begins to fall, take two bricks and place them side by side a few inches apart in your yard.


Time Lens

Time Lens Speeds Up Optical Data Transmission

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Sep 28, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (15) | comments 7

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at Cornell University have developed a device called a "time lens" which is a silicon device for speeding up optical data. The basic components of this device are an optical-fiber ...


New technique that scrambles light may lead to sharper images, wider views

New technique that scrambles light may lead to sharper images, wider views

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Apr 21, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (15) | comments 3

When photographers zoom in on an object to see it better, they lose the wide-angle perspective -- they are forced to trade off "big picture" context for detail. But now an imaging method developed by Princeton ...


Electrofluidic Display Technology puts electronic book readers ahead by a wide margin

Electrofluidic Display Technology puts electronic book readers ahead by a wide margin

Technology / Engineering

created Apr 29, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (12) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- Thinking about getting an e-reader but not sure if you like reading the dim screen? An international collaboration of the University of Cincinnati, Sun Chemical, Polymer Vision and Gamma Dynamics ...


The sound of light: Innovative technology shatters the barriers of modern light microscopy

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Jun 30, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (12) | comments 2

In the past, even modern technologies have failed to produce high-resolution fluorescence images from this depth because of the strong scattering of light. In the Nature Photonics journal, the Munich researchers describe how th ...


LIDAR system offers peerless precision in remote measurements

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created May 24, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (8) | comments 1

By combining the best of two different distance measurement approaches with a super-accurate technology called an optical frequency comb, researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology have built a laser ...


Bridging the gap in nanoantennas

Bridging the gap in nanoantennas

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Apr 20, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (8) | comments 1

In a recent publication in Nature Photonics, a joint team of researchers at CIC nanoGUNE, Donostia International Physics Center DIPC, Centro de Física de Materiales of CSIC/UPV-EHU in San Sebastian (Spain ...


IMEC reports method to integrate plasmonic technology with state-of-the-art ICs

IMEC reports method to integrate plasmonic technology with state-of-the-art ICs

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Apr 30, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (8) | comments 1

IMEC reports a method to integrate high-speed CMOS electronics and nanophotonic circuitry based on plasmonic effects. Metal-based nanophotonics (plasmonics) can squeeze light into nanoscale structures that ...


Team develops new metamaterial device

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Feb 24, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (6) | comments 0

An engineered metamaterial proved it can function as a state-of-the-art device in the complex terahertz range of the electromagnetic spectrum, setting a standard of performance for modulating tiny waves of radiation, according ...


Trading carats for nanometers - and defective diamonds for crystal clear microscopy

Trading carats for nanometers - and defective diamonds for crystal clear microscopy

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Mar 02, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Large, perfect diamonds are precious to almost all of us but to some scientists, it is the defects that really matter. This is because defects can form nanoscopic color centers, which play ...


Scientists hope to unlock mysteries of proteins

Physics / General Physics

created Apr 14, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 1

Proteins, the work-horse molecules necessary for virtually every human action from breathing to thinking, have proved an almost ghostly presence, daring scientists to fully grasp their structure and behavior. Now, physicists ...