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Photosensitive Bismuth Complex with Optimal Properties can Help Create Optical Memory Elements

Russian chemists obtained a new photochromic complex composed of bismuth and viologen cations and used the new compound to create optical memory elements which were shown to be highly efficient and stable.

27 Jul 2020

Researchers Introduce New Holographic Optical Tomography Method

If the eyes are the mirror of the soul, then thanks to the translucent corneas, we can look deep into that soul.

27 Jul 2020

Luxinar Website Goes Multilingual

Luxinar, the global leader in laser technology, is proud to announce that its website www.luxinar.com is now available in Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese and Korean in addition to English. The web...

From Luxinar Ltd 24 Jul 2020

New Photonic Integrated Chip Could Enable Several Advances in Optical Field

A new technology that can allow for better light control without requiring large, difficult-to-integrate materials and structures has been developed by Penn State researchers.

24 Jul 2020

New System Could Help Achieve Unprecedented Control over Near-Field Light

There are many types of light -- some visible and some invisible to the human eye. For example, our eyes and brain don't have the tools to process ultraviolet light when it hits our eyes, making it invisible.

24 Jul 2020

Novel Graded Index Waveguide Allows Width of Frequency Comb to be Doubled

Frequency combs are becoming one of the great enabling technologies of the 21st century.

24 Jul 2020

Simple Device Converts Circularly Polarized Laser Light into Vacuum UV

The technique of spectroscopy involves using light to analyze biological samples and physical objects. Information of different types can be derived using different types of light.

23 Jul 2020

Researchers Produce First X-Ray Beam Using Novel Undulators

Just over a decade ago in April 2009, the world's first hard X-ray free-electron laser produced its first light at the US Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory.

21 Jul 2020

Pushing the Boundaries of Data Speed with New, Solution-Based OLEDs

Researches are pushing the boundaries of data speed with a brand new type of organic LEDs.

20 Jul 2020

Researchers Demonstrate Topological Order for Sound Based on Time Modulations

In a breakthrough for physics and engineering, researchers from the Photonics Initiative at the Advanced Science Research Center at The Graduate Center, CUNY and from Georgia Tech have presented the first demonstration of topological order based on time modulations.

20 Jul 2020

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