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Researchers Construct Device that Can Detect Colors of the Rainbow

News - 30 Apr 2009

Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories have created the first carbon nanotube device that can detect the entire visible spectrum of light, a feat that could soon allow scientists to probe single...
New Technique That Scrambles Light May Lead To Sharper Images

News - 21 Apr 2009

When photographers zoom in on an object to see it better, they lose the wide-angle perspective -- they are forced to trade off "big picture" context for detail. But now an imaging method...
Enhancing the Accuracy of Atomic Clock

News - 16 Apr 2009

Physicists have measured and controlled seemingly forbidden collisions between neutral strontium atoms-a class of antisocial atoms known as fermions that are not supposed to collide when in identical...
Solid-state Metamaterial Device Tames Terahertz Frequency

News - 24 Feb 2009

An engineered metamaterial proved it can function as a state-of-the-art device in the complex terahertz range of the electromagnetic spectrum, setting a standard of performance for modulating tiny...
Project Could Save the Vision of Millions

News - 17 Feb 2009

In the blink of an eye, people at risk of becoming blind can now be screened for eye diseases such as diabetic retinopathy and age-related macular degeneration. Using a technology originally...
Powerful Tool for Reading Beneath the Paint on a Parchment Document

News - 15 Feb 2009

About 150 million years ago, an evolutionarily hybrid creature, a dinosaur on its way to becoming a bird, died in what is now Germany, and become fossilized in limestone. About 150 years ago, the...
PI Introduces Novel Ceramic Linear Motor Actuators at Photonics West Conference

News - 20 Jan 2009

Piezo systems specialist PI will introduce the novel N-380 / N-381 NEXACT® ceramic linear motor actuators at this year's Photonics West conference in San Jose, CA. The new actuator is based on...
Australia to Become World Leader in Photonics

News - 14 Dec 2008

The University of Adelaide is poised to become a world leader in photonics and advanced sensing technologies thanks to a major funding injection of $28.8 million from the Australian Government. The...
Harnessing "Force of Light" to Drive Machines

News - 26 Nov 2008

Science fiction writers have long envisioned sailing a spacecraft by the optical force of the sun's light. But, the forces of sunlight are too weak to fill even the oversized sails that have been...
4D Microscope Changing the Way We Look at the Atomic Scale

News - 20 Nov 2008

More than a century ago, the development of the earliest motion picture technology made what had been previously thought "magical" a reality: capturing and recreating the movement and...