Quantum News

RSS

Latest Cedip Jade SWIR Offers Broader Spectral Response and Better Performance

The Jade SWIR from Cedip Infrared Systems is a Near Infrared Camera incorporating a high quantum efficiency TE-cooled MCT focal plane array detector to provide spectral response from 0.8 to 2.5µm.

20 Dec 2007

Single-Photon Interference Leads to Faster X-ray Interferometers

By means of X-ray interferometers, lengths down to the mm range can be measured with a resolution of less than one nm. The low translation velocity of the interferometers, which made their use in practice more difficult, could now be increased by a factor of 100 by exploiting the temporal correlation of singly interfering X-ray photons.

19 Dec 2007

Physicists Combines Atom-Chiller with a Molecule Trap

Physicists at the University of Rochester have combined an atom-chiller with a molecule trap, creating for the first time a device that can generate and trap huge numbers of elusive-yet-valuable ultracold polar molecules.

12 Dec 2007

Lastest High Power Infrared Laser Diodes From Photonic Products

Photonic Products, the UK optoelectronics device manufacturer and laser diode specialist, has announced the introduction of two new, high power, infrared wavelength GaAlaS laser diodes from Opnext, Inc. The HL8337MG and the HL8338MG are ideal as light sources for industrial and medical sensor applications and as a light source for various other types of optical equipment such as distance meters, barcode scanners and high resolution CTP.

12 Dec 2007

Stanford Researchers Develop Quantum Light Switch

Infinitely secure cryptography that renders any computer unhackable. Computers that can solve the structure of a complicated protein at the drop of a hat. Programs to decrypt complicated enemy secrets. Optical data connections up to 100 times faster than current technology allows.

7 Dec 2007

Laser Light Switches Ultrafast Optical Shutter

It’s a rare case of all light and no heat: A new study reports that a laser can be used to switch a film of vanadium dioxide back and forth between reflective and transparent states without heating or cooling it.

6 Dec 2007

FARO's All-New Laser ScanArm V3 with Enhanced Accuracy and Lighter in Weight

FARO Technologies, Inc., the world market leader in portable computer-aided measurement arms and laser tracker sales, announced it has released an all-new Laser ScanArm V3. Among the enhancements, the new technology is 30-percent more accurate, 33-percent lighter in weight, and offers better performance in scanning dark or reflective surfaces than the Company's V2 models.

5 Dec 2007

New Semiconductor Nanophotonics Center Opens in Berlin

German research on novel optoelectronic devices and nanostructures is reinforced by a new Center of Excellence funded by the country's National Science Foundation.

29 Nov 2007

Photonic Crystal Fiber Breaking New Ground in Photonics

The photonic crystal fiber produces ultrafast pulses at low powers and across a broad spectral range, as well as breaking new conceptual ground in photonics.

29 Nov 2007

Researchers Demonstrate First Persistent Current in Ultracold Atomic Gas

Using laser light to stir an ultracold gas of atoms, researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the Joint Quantum Institute (NIST/University of Maryland) have demonstrated the first "persistent" current in an ultracold atomic gas - a frictionless flow of particles.

27 Nov 2007