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World’s first terahertz microscope shows long-hidden quantum jiggle in superconductors

MIT physicists have built a new microscope that can see quantum motion inside superconductors ...

Quantum mechanical effects help overcome a fundamental limitation of optical microscopy

Researchers from Regensburg and Birmingham have overcome a fundamental limitation of optical microscopy. With the help of ...

Terahertz microscope reveals the motion of superconducting electrons

You can tell a lot about a material based on the type of light shining at it: Optical light illuminates a material's surface, ...
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Light breaks its own limit by 100,000× to image matter at the scale of atoms

For over a century, light has both helped and limited our view of the ...
Hackaday

Double-Slit Time Diffraction At Optical Frequencies

The double-slit experiment, first performed by [Thomas Young] in 1801 provided the first definitive proof of the dual wave-particle nature of photons. A similar experiment can be performed that shows ...
Phys.org

Logic with light: Introducing diffraction casting, optical-based parallel computing

Increasingly complex applications such as artificial intelligence require ever more powerful and power-hungry computers to run. Optical computing is a proposed solution to increase speed and power ...
SUNY Cortland

Grating Challenge

This page contains hints, solutions, and advanced challenges for our diffraction grating challenge. If you would like a grating (or a set for your class if you are a teacher), please contact us at ...
GEN

Novel Lensless Light Diffraction Method Detects Viral Infection

Researchers at Harvard University and Jiangsu University developed a technique for not only identifying infected cells, but also tracking the infection over time as the cells developed. They published ...