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TAU Systems Upgrades University of Texas Tabletop Laser to 40 TW
AUSTIN, Texas, Aug. 22, 2023 — TAU Systems has upgraded the existing University of Texas Tabletop Terawatt Laser (UT3) to facilitate the powering of a compact particle accelerator. The upgraded UT3 driver laser now produces ultrashort pulses with a peak power of 40 TW. The upgrade is part of a collaboration between TAU and the University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin) to jointly develop the fundamental elements of laser-plasma interactions and advance the science and technology of compact accelerator systems and
Integrated Photonic Quantum Sensing Takes Aim at Climate Research
AUSTIN, Texas, March 28, 2023 — A NASA-funded collaboration will focus on advancing quantum sensing technology to enable new understanding of Earth and the effects of climate change. Led by the University of Texas at Austin (UT), Quantum Pathways Institute collaborators are...
Opto-Refrigerative Tweezers Overcome Heat Damage to Particles
AUSTIN, Texas, July 12, 2021 — A tweak to optical tweezer technology introduced by researchers at the University of Texas at Austin fixes the problem of heat that affects the tool. The prolonged interaction with the laser beam can alter molecules and particles or damage them with...
Ultrasensitive Detector Enables Lidar to Look Farther
AUSTIN, Texas, May 24, 2021 — A light sensor developed by the University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin) and the University of Virginia is able to amplify weak signals from far away with greater accuracy than current technology, giving autonomous vehicles a fuller picture of...
LaserNetUS Awarded $18M by US DOE
WASHINGTON, D.C., Oct. 28, 2020 — The U.S. Department of Energy announced $18 million in funding for LaserNetUS, a network of 10 high-intensity laser facilities at national laboratories and universities in the United States and Canada. The initiative, established in 2018, is...
Team Taps Chalcogenide For Flexible Devices
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Nov. 20, 2017 — A method for making photonic devices that can bend and stretch without damage could find uses in cables to connect computer devices, or in diagnostic and monitoring systems that could be attached to the skin. A new material produced by Juejun Hu and...
Hands-On Science in the Classroom Boosts STEM Retention Almost 25 Percent
AUSTIN, Texas, June 7, 2016 — A recent study found that a student’s chances of completing a science, technology, engineering or math (STEM) degree significantly increases when he or she participates in course-based undergraduate research experiences (CUREs), which engage...
Nanoconstructs Aid Ovarian Cancer Targeting
RIVERSIDE, Calif., Oct. 28, 2014 — Newly developed nanostructures haves proven to be effective biomarkers of ovarian cancer cells — and vehicles for their destruction. A team from the University of California, Riverside, and the University of Texas said their approach...
‘Metamirror’ Doubles Incident Light Frequency
AUSTIN, Texas, July 8, 2014 — A nanostructure produces nonlinear effects a million times greater than traditional, macro-scale nonlinear crystals, according to a team of researchers from Texas and Germany. This “metamirror” could enable miniaturized laser systems and...
4 Photonics Projects Get Defense Funding
WASHINGTON, June 3, 2014 — The U.S. Department of Defense has awarded funding totaling $28.3 million for four photonics graduate research projects under its Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative (MURI). Brief summaries of the projects follow. For further...
Metamaterials Perform 'Photonic Calculus'
PHILADELPHIA, AUSTIN, Texas, and BENEVENTO, Italy, Jan. 13, 2014 — The discovery that metamaterials can be designed to perform "photonic calculus" as lightwaves pass through them could give rebirth to analog computers.
Photonics Pioneer to Lead UTDallas Engineering
DALLAS, Oct. 30, 2013 — Dr. James Coleman, a leader in the development and application of semiconductor lasers and photonic devices, recently joined the University of Texas at Dallas to lead its electrical engineering department, the university said. An endowed professor...
Tiny Mirrors to Help VIRUS Spot Trails of Dark Energy
SANTA ANA, Calif., Aug. 15, 2011 — Precision Glass & Optics recently delivered specialized optical mirrors for use in building VIRUS, a key instrument for the Hobby-Eberly Telescope Dark Energy Experiment (HETDEX), a $36 million project that will study dark energy, the force that...
Optic Trends: More Than Meets the Eye for Optics
Jan 1, 2011 — For Samuel P. Sadoulet, one of the most important trends in optics can’t be seen – literally. As executive vice president of engineering and manufacturing at Barrington, N.J.-based optical component provider Edmund Optics, Sadoulet knows...
Realistic Robotic Arm Within Reach
DALLAS, Sept. 15, 2010 — Lightning-fast fiber optic connections between robotic limbs and the human brain may be within reach for injured soldiers and other amputees with the establishment of a multimillion-dollar neurophotonics research center dedicated to creating...
Scope Reveals New Physics of Graphene
GAITHERSBURG, Md., Sept. 8, 2010 — Using a one-of-a-kind scanning-probe microscope, an international team of researchers discovered that electrons in graphene, which comprise four quantum states, can split into different energies when exposed to extremely low temperatures and...
Dialing up the laser power
AUSTIN, Texas – Over the past 20 years, physicists have been steadily stepping up the power of lasers from the previously impressive terawatt level to the recently realized petawatt level. Now, researchers at the University of Texas are working toward building the...
SRC, UNT Establish Semiconductor Center
RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. and DENTON, Texas, March 25, 2010 – Semiconductor Research Corp. (SRC), a university-research consortium for semiconductors and related technologies, and the University of North Texas (UNT) announced the formation of a new research center that focuses on advanced plasma processes and...
Painting the roof with solar ink
Nov 1, 2009 — Covering rooftops with solar cells came one step closer to reality recently when JA Solar of Yangzhou, China, announced plans to commercialize technology developed by Innovalight, a San Francisco Bay-area company that makes a silicon solar...
Cancer Probe Trials Funded
AUSTIN, Texas, Aug. 19, 2008 -- A new grant will allow a researcher to continue developing and testing a device that uses light to detect skin cancer without the need for an invasive biopsy. University of Texas at Austin biomedical engineer James Tunnell has been awarded a...
'FlowCytobot' Detects Blooms
FALMOUTH, Mass., April 15, 2008 -- The Imaging FlowCytobot, an underwater microscope developed as a research tool, recently proved its worth as an early warning device by detecting blooms of harmful marine algae in the Gulf of Mexico and giving authorities time to close areas before...
UTSA Receives $822K to Purchase Electron Microscopes
Mar 13, 2008 — The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) announced it has received $822,000 from the Robert J. Kleberg Jr. and Helen C. Kleberg Foundation to purchase three high-powered electron microscopes. The scanning, tunneling, and atomic force...
Building a Room for a Bacterium
Mar 1, 2007 — University of Texas at Austin researchers Bryan J. Kaehr and Jason B. Shear have developed a way to rapidly generate microscale patterns in biomaterials using a technique dubbed mask-directed multiphoton lithography. Among other applications, they...
Snapshot of a Laser Wakefield
PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 30, 2006 -- Speedy plasma waves known as Langmuir waves have been photographed for the first time, using a holographic-strobe camera specially designed for this purpose by physicists at the Universities of Texas and Michigan. The waves are the fastest...
New 'Superlens' Reveals Hidden Nanostructures
AUSTIN, Texas, Sept. 18, 2006 -- In a development that could enhance near-field microscopy, a 'superlens' made of a thin film of silicon carbide sandwiched between two layers of silicon oxide has enabled the first direct near-field optical images. Integrating a superlens into a...
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