LASER OPTICAL DATA PROCESSING: Bose-Einstein condensates enable light revival
03/01/2007
http://www.laserfocusworld.com/arti...instein-condensates-enable-light-revival.html
Ultraslow Light & Bose-Einstein Condensates
http://www.deas.harvard.edu/haulab/publications/pdf/OPN_Ultraslow_light.pf
Strong atom-field coupling for Bose-Einstein
condensates in an optical cavity on a chip
http://arxiv.org/pdf/0706.1390.pdf
Collapses and revivals in the interference between two Bose-Einstein condensates formed in small atomic samples
http://pra.aps.org/abstract/PRA/v56/i1/p591_1
Received 21 November 1996; published in the issue dated July 1997
Pretty old stuff.
Photonic integrated circuit
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photonic_integrated_circuit
A photonic integrated circuit (PIC) or integrated optical circuit is a device that integrates multiple photonic functions and as such is analogous to an electronic integrated circuit. The major difference between the two is that a photonic integrated circuit provides functionality for information signals imposed on optical wavelengths typically in the visible spectrum or near infrared 850 nm-1650 nm.
A
2005 development[1] solved a quantum noise problem that prevented silicon from being used to generate laser light, permitting new integrated circuits to use high-bandwidth laser light generated within the circuit itself as a signal medium.
High-Performance Energy Storage
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/07/070702150050.htm
ScienceDaily (
July 2, 2007) — North Carolina State University physicists have recently deduced a way to improve high-energy-density capacitors so that they can store up to seven times as much energy per unit volume than the common capacitor. High performance capacitors would enable hybrid and electric cars with much greater acceleration, better and faster steering of rockets and spacecraft, better regeneration of electricity when using brakes in electric cars, and improved lasers, among many other electrical applications.
A polymer called PVDF has interested physicists as a possible high-performance dielectric. It exists in two forms, polarized or unpolarized. In either case, its structure is mostly frozen-in and changes only slightly when a capacitor is charged up. Mixing a second polymer called CTFE with PVDF results in a material with regions that can change their structure, enabling it to store and release unprecedented amounts of energy.
Graphene-based supercapacitor hits new energy storage high
http://www.gizmag.com/graphene-supercapacitor-energy-density-record/17188/
A breakthrough in supercapacitor performance has been achieved with the development of a device that can store as much energy as a battery while recharging in seconds. The graphene-based supercapacitor being developed in the U.S. by researchers at Nanotek Instruments can store as much energy per unit mass as nickel metal hydride batteries and could one day be used to help deliver almost instant charging to recharge mobile phones, digital cameras or micro electric vehicles.
Nanocapacitors Offer High Power and Large Storage
http://thefutureofthings.com/news/7432/nanocapacitors-offer-high-power-and-large-storage.html
The nanocapacitor can only take advantage of these physical properties because the individual components are so small and placed so close together. Pores 50 nanometers in diameter and 30 nanometers deep are etched into a glass plate covered with aluminum with 25 nanometer spacing.
TFOT has previously reported on the use of a carbon graphene layer to store power in a similar nanocapacitor.
