Items tagged with optical

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Quantum Computer Slips Onto Chips Sunday, September 6th, 2009 - 14:06:29 - Ehud Rattner Researchers have devised a penny-sized silicon chip that uses photons to run Shor's algorithm - a well-known quantum approach - to solve a maths... read more

Beyond Blu-Ray - 2,000 Movies on One Disc Wednesday, June 24th, 2009 - 14:00:51 - Anuradha Menon Just as we were all getting used to watching movies on Blu-Ray, Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne, Australia has developed a DVD that... read more

First Acoustic Superlens Thursday, May 28th, 2009 - 14:35:43 - Anuradha Menon Over the past few years, researchers have developed several materials that bend light in ways that appear to violate the laws of physics, creating... read more

GE's 500GB Optical Discs Wednesday, April 29th, 2009 - 10:07:36 - Anuradha Menon GE has announced a breakthrough in holographic storage, which the company believes will bring it much closer to the day when it can store up to 500GB... read more

Optical Tricks Create 'Moving' Murals Sunday, March 22nd, 2009 - 14:21:29 - Sarah Gingichashvili A huge mural greets visitors to the Reggie Lewis Track and Athletic Center in Boston. It's a memorial to the building's namesake, who died... read more

Eyes Reveal Health Secrets of the Brain Sunday, January 18th, 2009 - 17:54:45 - Ehud Rattner The eyes may be the windows to the soul, but they also make pretty good peepholes into the brain. Thanks to an optical version of ultrasound, it is... read more

Olympus Puts 10X Optical Zoom In Pocket Cam Wednesday, January 7th, 2009 - 16:53:02 - Anuradha Menon It's no 26x optical zoom behemoth like its just-announced SP-590 UZ, but Olympus put yet another feather in its zoom cap with the Olympus... read more

New Record For Quantum Memory Storage Monday, December 8th, 2008 - 16:03:05 - Ehud Rattner Physicists have taken a significant step toward creation of quantum networks by establishing a new record for the length of time that quantum... read more

Nanoparticles To Increase Sensor Efficiency Saturday, November 15th, 2008 - 16:53:14 - Anuradha Menon Researchers at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have demonstrated experimentally and theoretically that the surface... read more

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