Afterglow Gives Clues to Gamma Ray Bursts
Since their discovery in 1967, intense gamma ray bursts in the universe have mystified scientists....
New Method Looks Inside Living Cells
STANFORD, Calif. -- Many chemical reactions occurring in living organisms are both fast (in the...
Single-Crystal Thin Films Offer Promise for Free-Space Interconnects
High-speed, single-pass thin-film electro-optic modulators could enhance the performance of a...
Technique Enables Flexible, Thin Displays
Researchers have developed a method similar to that used to prepare polymer-dispersed liquid...
Stopped-Flow Device Improves Time-Resolved FTIR
To perform long-path absorbance measurements for liquid samples, a luminescence detector cell must...
Stopped-Flow Device Improves Time-Resolved FTIR
Chemists have relied on time-resolved Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy to investigate...
Tabletop Laser Sparks Nuclear Fusion
Researchers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory have demonstrated that big things can come...
Cleaved Gallium Nitride Proposed for Blue Laser Diodes
Researchers from Technische Universitat Berlin have reported observing optically excited stimulated...
'Laser Hatching' Proves Successful
The first births resulting from pregnancies initiated by laser-assisted hatching could signal the...
Largest Laser Shocks Diamond into Metal
LIVERMORE, Calif. -- Though physicists may be jumping for joy, those who consider diamonds their...
Lasers Burst Across a Frontier
At Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, researchers have crossed a threshold. They've...
Laser System Spots Dirty Laundry
Spectra Science Corp. in Providence, R.I., has demonstrated a laser-based system that identifies,...
Technique Regulates Light in Liquid
Chemists at Utrecht University and Philips Research have developed a technique to regulate light...
Los Alamos Lab to Improve Images
LOS ALAMOS, N.M. -- Imaging the Earth's surface through the atmo-sphere presents many challenges....
Novel LEDs Could Eliminate Bacteria
A new resonant cavity light-emitting diode (LED) could help to eradicate antibiotic-resistant...
Fiber Optic Unit Promises More Crash Data
SUDBURY, Mass. -- Airplane crash investigations have been hindered by limited flight data,...
Visible Light Reflects Nearly Perfectly
ESSEN, Germany -- Materials with photonic bandgaps hold great promise for a wide variety of...
Air Force Opens Imaging and Radar Test Facility
The US Air Force has improved its ability to measure stealth characteristics of enemy planes with...
Rydberg Atoms Enable High-Speed IR Imaging
AMSTERDAM, Netherlands -- Researchers at the FOM Institute for Atomic and Molecular Physics have...
Silica Sol Glues 3-D Silica Network
A group of scientists at the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington has demonstrated the use of...
Vacuum-UV Laser Absorption Spectroscopy Measures Fluorine Atoms
To process large-scale integrated circuits, engineers must control the density of fluorine atoms to...
Optical Fiber Senses Spills
The rapid, pinpoint accuracy of optical time domain reflectometry could find new use in detecting...