News tagged with short wavelength


New Laser Technique Advances Nanofabrication Process

New Laser Technique Advances Nanofabrication Process

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Apr 09, 2009 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (10) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- The ability to create tiny patterns is essential to the fabrication of computer chips and many other current and potential applications of nanotechnology. Yet, creating ever smaller features, ...





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Researchers develop ultrafast oscilloscope on a chip

Researchers develop ultrafast oscilloscope on a chip

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 06, 2008 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (9) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- As photonics -- using beams of light in place of electricity for communications and computing -- becomes more common, engineers need new tools for troubleshooting. Now researchers at Cornell ...


Fiber-optic booster on a chip

Fiber-optic booster on a chip

Physics / General Physics

created Feb 20, 2008 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (35) | comments 0

More and more of our communications -- from text messages to high-definition television -- travel over optical fiber. At last count the United States was crisscrossed by more than 80 million miles of it, with ...


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Sony Develops World's Highest Optical Output 7.2W, 635nm Red Semiconductor Laser Array

Technology / Semiconductors

created Aug 25, 2008 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (11) | comments 4

Sony Corporation today announced that it has developed a high-power, short-wavelength red semiconductor laser array diode, ideal for use as a light source in projection devices.


Free Electron Lasers and You: An LCLS Primer

Free Electron Lasers and You: An LCLS Primer

Physics / General Physics

created Dec 05, 2008 | popularity 4 / 5 (14) | comments 9

(PhysOrg.com) -- In a few short months, the Linac Coherent Light Source will start operation as the world's first hard X-ray free electron laser, pushing SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory to the frontier ...


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Ghostly glow reveals galaxy clusters in collision

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Oct 15, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (15) | comments 1

A team of scientists, including astronomers from the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL), have detected long wavelength radio emission from a colliding, massive galaxy cluster which, surprisingly, is not detected ...


Study shines light on night-time alertness

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Aug 26, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

The circadian system is not the only pathway involved in determining alertness at night. Research described in the open access journal BMC Neuroscience showed that red light, which does not stimulate the circadian system ...


Study: lighting and how it affects health

Other Sciences /

created Oct 19, 2005 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute scientists in Troy, N.Y., say they've discovered a way of testing architectural lighting and how it affects human health.


Tapering a Free-Electron Laser to Extract More Juice

Tapering a Free-Electron Laser to Extract More Juice

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 20, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers from the NSLS and Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) have demonstrated a technique that could be used to significantly improve the quantity and quality of light ...


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 ...


Compressing photonic signals for greater bandwidth

Compressing photonic signals for greater bandwidth

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Nov 03, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (6) | comments 3

Cornell researchers have developed an ingenious method to time-compress optical signals. The process could enable optical communication systems to carry many more bits per second or could also be used to generate ...



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