Optics Express
hideOptics Express is a peer-reviewed rapid-publication scientific, electronic journal published by the Optical Society of America. It reports on all fields of optical science and technology. The journal is free. The costs are paid by the authors of the published articles.
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News tagged with optics express
Diamonds are a laser's best friend
Sep 18, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Tomorrow's lasers may come with a bit of bling, thanks to a new technology that uses man-made diamonds to enhance the power and capabilities of lasers. Researchers in Australia have now demonstrated the first ...
Up-scale: Frequency converter enables ultra-high sensitivity infrared spectrometry
Aug 26, 2009 |
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In what may prove to be a major development for scientists in fields ranging from forensics to quantum communications, researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology have developed a new, ...
Open wide and say 'zap'
Aug 18, 2009 |
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A group of researchers in Australia and Taiwan has developed a new way to analyze the health of human teeth using lasers. As described in the latest issue of Optics Express,, by measuring how the surface of a tooth respon ...
The guiding of light: A new metamaterial device steers beams along complex pathways
Jul 31, 2009 |
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Using a composite metamaterial to deliver a complex set of instructions to a beam of light, Boston College physicists have created a device to guide electromagnetic waves around objects such as the corner ...
Breaking barriers with nanoscale lasers
Jul 28, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- We could soon see the potential of laser technology expand dramatically.
Physicists find way to explore microscopic systems through holographic video
Jul 20, 2009 |
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Physicists at New York University have developed a technique to record three-dimensional movies of microscopic systems, such as biological molecules, through holographic video. The work, which is reported in Optics Express, has po ...
Light-absorbing nanowires may make better solar panels
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Jul 07, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A century after German physicist Gustav Mie derived the math to explain why the colors in some stained glass windows look especially resplendent in the sunlight, a team of Stanford engineers ...
Liquid crystal lasers promise cheaper, high colour resolution laser television
Apr 20, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at the Centre of Molecular Materials for Photonics and Electronics (CMMPE) (part of the Department's Photonics Research Group at the University of Cambridge) are leading the way ...
Variations in blood circulation immediately visible with fast camera
Mar 19, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Burns or other disorders that disrupt the blood flow in tissues will soon be easier to assess thanks to a camera that is capable of imaging blood circulation in real time. Compared to an earlier ...
3-D snapshots of eyes reveal details of age-related blindness
Mar 19, 2009 |
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To get a better look at the abnormalities that cause age-related macular degeneration (AMD), the leading cause of vision loss in Americans and Europeans over 50, the research groups of James Fujimoto at the Massachusetts ...
Study on free-space optical communication shows experimental evidence of a unique atmospheric effect
Mar 17, 2009 |
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Three members of the faculty at Stevens Institute of Technology recently collaborated on a paper focusing on free-space optical communication, which appears in the latest issue of Optics Express.
Shining light on diabetes-related blindness
Mar 11, 2009 |
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A group of scientists in California is trying to develop a cheaper, less invasive way to spot the early stages of retinal damage from diabetic retinopathy, the leading cause of blindness in American adults, before it leads ...
Laser-sculpted optical devices for future giant telescopes
Feb 05, 2009 |
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Future telescopes, with mirrors half the size of a football field, will need special components to deal with the light they collect. Astronomers are turning to photonic devices that guide and manipulate light inside specially-designed ...
De-multiplexing to the max: 640 Gbits/second
Feb 02, 2009 |
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Sliced light is how we communicate now. Millions of phone calls and cable television shows per second are dispatched through fibers in the form of digital zeros and ones formed by chopping laser pulses into bits. This slicing ...
Using light to move and trap DNA molecules
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Jan 02, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A major goal of nanotechnology research is to create a "lab on a chip," in which a tiny biological sample would be carried through microscopic channels for processing. This could make possible ...
