News tagged with optical telecommunication


Nanophotonic devices could revolutionize the telecommunications industry

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Sep 15, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

This year's Julius Springer Prize for Applied Physics will be awarded to Professor Motoichi Ohtsu for his pioneering and seminal work on nanophotonics and near field optics as well as for the development of innovative nanophotonic ...


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.





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Life after silicon

Life after silicon: Using exotic materials to help microchips keep improving

Technology / Semiconductors

created 14 hours ago | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- The huge increases in the power and capacity of computers, cell phones and communications networks in the last 40 years have been the result of ever-shrinking silicon transistors. But silicon ...


RIT astronomer mines Spitzer Space Telescope data for massive starbursts

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created 16 hours ago | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Understanding the evolution of galaxies is one of the biggest questions confronting astronomers today. Looking at distant astronomical objects gives scientists important clues to the origins of the Milky Way Galaxy and other ...


Research is shattering traditioinal notions of laser limits

Research is shattering traditioinal notions of laser limits

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Dec 07, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

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, ...


Super cool atom thermometer

Super cool atom thermometer

Physics / General Physics

created Dec 07, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

As physicists strive to cool atoms down to ever more frigid temperatures, they face the daunting task of developing new, reliable ways of measuring these extreme lows. Now a team of physicists has devised ...


Space technology optimises windmill efficiency

Space technology optimises windmill efficiency

Technology / Engineering

created Dec 07, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A French start-up company from ESA's Business Incubation Centre in the Netherlands has developed a small instrument to measure wind speed and direction from the ground up to heights of 200 ...


Using lasers to cool and manipulate molecules

Using lasers to cool and manipulate molecules

Physics / General Physics

created Dec 07, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- "For years, we have been using laser cooling to trap and manipulate atoms," David DeMille tells PhysOrg.com. "This has been very useful for both basic science and many applications. Recent ...


NASA to launch sky-mapping spacecraft (AP)

NASA to launch sky-mapping spacecraft

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Dec 06, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 3

(AP) -- NASA's latest space telescope will scan the sky in search of never-before-seen asteroids, comets, stars and galaxies, with one of its main tasks to catalog objects posing a danger to Earth. The sky-mapping ...


Studying a Star Before it is Born

Studying a Star Before it is Born

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Dec 04, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- The first phase of a star's formation are thought to begin deep inside a natal cloud of gas and dust. In the earliest stages, material coalesces under the influence of gravity into so-called ...


Fine-tuned

Fine-tuned: A wholly new approach to tuning a laser's frequency

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Dec 04, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (9) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- For more than 30 years, scientists have been trying to harness the power of terahertz radiation. Tucked between microwaves and infrared rays on the electromagnetic spectrum, terahertz rays ...


New laser -- it's a gas, gas, gas... sensor

New laser -- it's a gas, gas, gas... sensor

Technology / Engineering

created Dec 04, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new generation of optical sensors is enabling the development of robust, long-lasting, lighting-fast trace gas detectors for use in a wide range of industrial, security and domestic applications.



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