Picking up the statistics of good vibrations in Brillouin-Mandelstam scattering
Experiments with single-photon detectors have revealed surprising statistics of light created via interactions with high-frequency sound waves.
Experiments with single-photon detectors have revealed surprising statistics of light created via interactions with high-frequency sound waves.
Optics & Photonics
Nov 8, 2023
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University of Otago physicists have used a small glass bulb containing an atomic vapor to demonstrate a new form of antenna for radio waves. The bulb was "wired up" with laser beams and could therefore be placed far from ...
Optics & Photonics
Oct 18, 2023
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Astronomers using simulated data have produced a glimpse of the sky as it would appear in gravitational waves, cosmic ripples in space-time generated by orbiting objects. The image shows how space-based gravitational wave ...
Astronomy
Sep 20, 2023
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Researchers have shown that dissipative Kerr solitons (DKSs) can be used to create chip-based optical frequency combs with enough output power for use in optical atomic clocks and other practical applications. The advance ...
Optics & Photonics
Aug 29, 2023
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A collaborative research team led by Interim Head of Physics Professor Shuang Zhang from The University of Hong Kong (HKU), along with National Center for Nanoscience and Technology, Imperial College London and University ...
Optics & Photonics
Aug 21, 2023
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What do you feel when you see the aurora?
Planetary Sciences
Aug 15, 2023
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Using the LOw-Frequency ARray (LOFAR) and MeerKAT telescope, European astronomers have performed radio observations of a galaxy cluster known as Abell 1413. Results of the observational campaign, published August 1 in the ...
National University of Singapore (NUS) physicists have developed a method using a focused beam of helium ions to create arrays of defects in hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) that can potentially be used for magnetic sensing ...
Nanophysics
Jul 21, 2023
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Light, with its countless colors, is one of the wonders of nature. To truly understand what we see, it is essential to know the precise colors of the light with which we perceive our world. We achieve this by means of optical ...
Optics & Photonics
Jul 10, 2023
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Last year, scientists drove up Mauna Loa volcano on Hawai'i, aimed a laser at a reflector positioned on Haleakala peak on Maui, and beamed rapid pulses of laser light through 150 kilometers of turbulent air. While the pulses ...
General Physics
Jun 21, 2023
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