#optics
Impact of the Langdon effect on crossed-beam energy transfer
New research from the University of Rochester will enhance the accuracy of computer models used in simulations of laser-driven implosions, and may bring scientists one step closer to achieving fusion.
3 Dec 2019 ⋅ Nature Physics
Through the eyes of animals
Most animals have completely different visual systems to humans, so - for many species - it is unclear how they see complex visual information or colour patterns in nature, and how this drives their behaviour.
3 Dec 2019 ⋅ Methods in Ecology and Evolution
Programmable linear quantum networks with a multimode fibre
As a consequence, the platform for reconfigurable circuits may be appealing well beyond the quantum physics community.
2 Dec 2019 ⋅ Nature Photonics
Electro-optical device provides solution to faster computing memories and processors
First-of-a-kind electro-optical device provides solution to faster and more energy efficient computing memories and processors.
29 Nov 2019 ⋅ Science Advances
Armored with plastic ‘hair’ and silica, new perovskite nanocrystals show more durability
The research team describes a multistep process to produce encased perovskite nanocrystals that exhibit strong resistance to degradation in moist environments.
29 Nov 2019 ⋅ Science Advances
Light-trapping nanocubes drive inexpensive multispectral camera
Plasmonic light detector could revolutionize multispectral imaging for cancer, food safety and agriculture
25 Nov 2019 ⋅ Nature Materials
A remote control for everything small
Atoms, molecules or even living cells can be manipulated with light beams. At TU Wien a method was developed to revolutionize such "optical tweezers".
18 Nov 2019 ⋅ Nature Photonics
Hot electrons harvested without tricks
The results showed that hot electrons from the perovskite semiconductor were readily absorbed by the bphen.
15 Nov 2019 ⋅ Science Advances
New laser opens up large, underused region of the electromagnetic spectrum
Researchers have developed a compact, room temperature, widely tunable terahertz laser.
14 Nov 2019 ⋅ Science
A one-way street for light
Physicists at Bonn University irreversibly split photons by freezing them in a Bose-Einstein condensate.
14 Nov 2019 ⋅ Science