News tagged with optic components

How long do electrons live in graphene?

Together with international colleagues, scientists from the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR) have added another important component towards understanding the material graphene; a material that is ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Dec 12, 2011 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

A passive alignment method offers an easy solution for fabricating integrated photonic circuits

The rise of computers in past decades was made possible largely thanks to the invention of the integrated circuit, a device that combines all necessary electronic components onto a single chip. In a similar ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Nov 17, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Research team achieves first 2-color STED microscopy of living cells

Researchers are able to achieve extremely high-resolution microscopy through a process known as stimulated emission depletion (STED) microscopy. This cutting-edge imaging system has pushed the performance of microscopes significantly ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Aug 17, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Pentagonal tiles pave the way towards organic electronics

(PhysOrg.com) -- New research paves way for the nanoscale self-assembly of organic building blocks, a promising new route towards the next generation of ultra-small electronic devices.

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created May 06, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (8) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Moth eyes inspire antireflective surfaces for military applications

(PhysOrg.com) -- If you look closely at the surface of a moth's cornea, you see that it is comprised of tiny protruding bumps. These bumps exist to keep moths safe from predators by preventing light from reflecting ...

Technology / Engineering

created Mar 08, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

World's first 100GbE CFP transceiver for 40km transmission introduced

Fujitsu Optical Components Limited today announced that it will be releasing on May 1st, 2011 the world's first 100GbE transceiver defined in the CFP MSA that supports the ER4 standard (40Km transmission with ...

Technology / Telecom

created Mar 07, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Microtechnology: An alignment assignment

Microelectromechanical systems (MEMS), which consist of tiny moving parts driven by electrical signals, have found ready applications in optical communication systems. They are attractive in part because they ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Jan 21, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

High-performance microring resonator developed by INRS researchers

A new, more efficient low-cost microring resonator for high speed telecommunications systems has been developed and tested by Professor Roberto Morandotti's INRS team in collaboration with Canadian, American, and Australian ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Feb 09, 2010 | popularity 2 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Selling chip makers on optical computing

(PhysOrg.com) -- Computer chips that transmit data with light instead of electricity consume much less power than conventional chips, but so far, they've remained laboratory curiosities. Professors Vladimir ...

Technology / Semiconductors

created Nov 24, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (11) | comments 1

Nanotechnology gets a new light touch

(PhysOrg.com) -- Building the super-fast computers of the future has just become much easier thanks to an advance by Australian researchers that lets them grab hold of tiny electronics components and probe ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Oct 02, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (9) | comments 0

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

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 ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Apr 30, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (9) | comments 1