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Optofluidic Smart Glass Heats and Cools Efficiently, Inexpensively
NEWARK, Del., Dec. 20, 2017 — We may not be able to control the weather, but new switchable window technology using optofluidic smart glass could someday be used to keep our vehicles, businesses and homes comfortable regardless of the temperature outside. This smart window technology contains a plastic panel with a retroreflective pattern of structures. Rather than reflecting light in all directions like a mirror, the retroflective panel reflects light back in the direction it came from. For example, if this smart window
Next-Gen Image Sensor Delivers High-Quality, Low-Light Imaging
HANOVER, N.H., Dec. 19, 2017 — ; A new imaging technology has been developed that can capture and count single photons with resolution as high as one megapixel and as fast as thousands of frames per second. Called the Quanta Image Sensor, or QIS, this technology enables highly...
High-Performance Vector Polarizer Tailors Light
NANJING and TIANJIN, China and ORLANDO, Fla., Dec. 18, 2017 — A newly proposed design for a vector polarizer could enable flexible filtering of a wide range of light sources and the generation of new light states. The design can be used to tailor light intensity, phase and polarization. To increase polarizer...
Quantum Emitter Integration May Enable Quantum Circuits
ULSAN, South Korea, Dec. 14, 2017 — Researchers integrated silicon photonic devices with a solid-state single photon emitter, using a hybrid approach that combines silicon photonic waveguides with quantum dots. The silicon photonic waveguides were used for manipulating light, and the...
Team Studies Optical Properties of Plasmonic Nanovesicles
AUSTIN, Texas., Dec. 12, 2017 — An on-demand, light-triggered drug release method — vesicular assembly of small plasmonic nanoparticles, or plasmonic vesicle — could aid in treatment of disease, support efforts to study the nervous system in real-time, provide insight...
Hologram Memory Quality Key For Optical Data Storage
TOYOHASHI, Japan, Dec. 12, 2017 — A research team has applied magnetic assist recording technology to magnetic-holographic memory, reducing recording energy consumption and achieving non-error data reconstruction. Their work could pave the way for practical application of...
That Was Then, This Is Now: Fiber Optic Cables Find New Use as Seismic Sensors
BERKELEY and STANFORD, Calif., Dec. 11, 2017 — The decade that gave us the Sony PlayStation also gave us dark fiber – an excess of optical fiber cables installed underground, mostly in the 90s, before advances in data transmission reduced the need for all those cables. Now, research teams...
Transparent Materials Absorb Light
MOSCOW, Dec. 8, 2017 — Researchers have demonstrated an optical paradox — they have made a completely transparent material appear perfectly absorbing. The results of their research contradict the idea that materials that look transparent, such as glass, appear that...
Single-Shot Approach to HSI Uses Camera Equipped With Prism
DAEJEON, South Korea, Dec. 8, 2017 — A compact, low-cost, single-shot hyperspectral imaging method has been devised, which captures images using a conventional digital single-lens reflex (DSLR) camera equipped with an ordinary refractive prism placed in front of the lens. The new,...
Microscope Uses UV Light to Provide High-Res Images in Minutes, Without Damaging Tissue
SACRAMENTO, Calif., Dec. 6, 2017 — A fluorescence-based, slide-free optical imaging system, known as microscopy with UV surface excitation (MUSE), uses UV light at wavelengths below the 300 nanometer (nm) range to penetrate the surface of tissue samples by only a few microns —...
Hybrid Perovskite Material Could Be Key to Making Organic Diode Lasers
STATE COLLEGE, Pa., Dec. 5, 2017 — Researchers are closer to creating a tunable semiconductor diode laser from hybrid organic-inorganic perovskites. Using a material composed of an inorganic perovskite sublattice with relatively big organic molecules confined in the middle, a Penn...
All-Optical Ultrasound Transducer Could Transform Keyhole Surgeries
LONDON, Dec. 5, 2017 — An optical ultrasound needle has been developed that allows heart tissue to be imaged in real-time during keyhole procedures. The technology was successfully used for minimally invasive heart surgery on pigs, giving a high-resolution view of soft...
Researchers Manipulate Light to Make Optical Chip Invisible
BEER-SHEVA, Israel, Dec. 4, 2017 — Researchers have conceived a method that deflects and scatters light away from a ‘cloaking’ chip surface so it is not detected. The scattering fields of the object located on the cloak do not interact with the evanescent field, rendering...
Visible Light Controls Chemical Reaction Pathways, Could Be Industrial UV Alternative
BRISBANE, Australia, Dec. 4, 2017 — A technique has been developed that modulates visible colored light to enable it to control the reactions of chemical coupling agents. The modulation of the reactivity by light is reversible, and the individually addressable reaction pathways can be...
Four-Wave Mixing Paves Way for Optical Computing
LONDON, Dec. 4, 2017 — Researchers have reduced the distance over which light can interact by 10,000 fold by performing efficient four-wave mixing (FWM) over micrometer-scale interaction lengths at telecommunications wavelengths on silicon. Their work could advance...
High-Intensity Photon Beams May Work in Large-Scale Laser Facilities
GOTHENBURG, Sweden, Dec. 1, 2017 — A scientific team has identified the numerical models and analytic estimates for simulating ultra-strong gamma rays in a highly efficient way. According to the team, these high intensity gamma rays significantly exceed all known limits. While there...
Solar Farms in China Masquerade as Pandas
Dec 1, 2017 — Proudly called the national treasure of China, the giant panda is the rarest member of the bear family. Among the world’s most threatened species, the panda has also become the face of global conservation efforts worldwide. In an effort to...
Quantum Optics Lead to Spectroscopy Method for Measuring on FS Timescale
MOSCOW, Dec. 1, 2017 — Scientists have demonstrated a time-resolved spectroscopy technique that enables the study of very fast processes in samples on the femtosecond (fs) time scale without the need for an fs laser or a complex detection system. The method works by...
Holographic Technique Uses Deep Learning to Increase Accuracy, Improve Microscopy
LOS ANGELES, Nov. 30, 2017 — Researchers are using deep learning, one of the key technologies behind advances in real-time speech recognition and automated image and video labeling, to reconstruct a hologram to form a microscopic image of an object. This convolutional neural...
THz Imaging Uncovers Secrets of 17th-Century Masterpiece
Nov 30, 2017 — There has long been an air of mystery surrounding paintings created prior to the 18th century and how the artists prepared their canvases, applied undercoats and eventually created their masterpieces. Researchers from Georgia Tech-Lorraine, a campus...
Pulsed Laser Irradiation Enhances Nanoplate Properties
KUMAMOTO, Japan, Nov. 29, 2017 — When gold-coated silver nanoplates are irradiated with a pulsed laser, they release silver ions which are known to produce a strong antibacterial effect. Researchers observed that silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) — known to have antibacterial...
Coupling Perovskite to Nanophotonic Cavities for More Efficient Optoelectronics
COLLEGE PARK, Md. and ZÜRICH, Nov. 29, 2017 — To boost the efficiency of perovskite as a light source for optoelectronics, researchers coupled lead halide perovskite nanocrystals to a nanophotonic cavity at room temperature. The research team drop cast perovskite nanocrystals in toluene...
Wave Mixing on Artificial Atom Could Be Used for Building Quantum Electronics
MOSCOW, Nov. 28, 2017 — Scientists have demonstrated quantum wave mixing (QWM) on a single superconducting artificial atom. In their exploration of the different regimes of QWM, they showed that superposed and coherent states of light were mapped into a quantized spectrum...
IR Thermal Imaging Improves Inspection of Radiation Shields
WASHINGTON D.C., Nov. 24, 2017 — Researchers at the Children’s National Health System have published a story in the Journal of the American College of Radiology detailing the use of IR thermal imaging as a tool to detect defects in protective lead aprons. "When I researched...
Prism Awards Mark Decade of Innovation
BELLINGHAM, Wash., and PITTSFIELD, Mass., Nov. 22, 2017 — The world’s smallest FT-IR spectrometer, a lidar system for autonomous vehicles, and a smartphone add-on sensor for noncontact bioimaging — these products are among 30 finalists vying for Prism Awards in January. Marking its 10th year in...

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