Investigators at the US Department of Energy's (DOE) Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) announce the development of a new method for exercising dynamic control on the curved trajectories of Airy beams over metallic surfaces.This new advanced optics study goes against what physics students learn... |
12 August 2011
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Experts from the Northwestern University Electronic Materials Research Institute, led by Director and Distinguished Professor Srinivas Sridhar, PhD, announce that they were able to produce a new type of lens. The device, which is built at the nanoscale, operates in such a manner that it exceeds the diffraction limit,... |
19 January 2010
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In a groundbreaking, new work, scientists at the FOM institute AMOLF, in the Netherlands, managed to use the magnetic field of light to power up an energy transfer between nanoelectromagnets. This has never been achieved before anywhere in the world, and the group is very excited about its success. In addition to bre... |
23 December 2009
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At this point, optical fiber is able to focus beams of light into extremely narrow space. AS light travels through the wire, the latter gets narrower and narrower, until it finally reaches a thickness of only a few hundred nanometers. From that moment on – depending on the wavelength of the light itself –... |
13 November 2009
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Working together, experts from the Arizona State University, in the United States, and the Technical University of Eindhoven, in the Netherlands, have recently developed new methods of creating even smaller lasers, to be used in applications at the nanoscale. Existing methods are very cumbersome to follow, and requir... |
29 July 2009
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Conventional lenses, no matter how powerful, are only able to magnify light to nearly half of the wavelength, or the so-called diffraction limit. This basically means that the dimensions of optical storing devices or the sizes of the features created on silicon chips are limited to how much focusing power a particula... |
25 April 2008
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