• Get Prescription Sunglasses, Eyeglasses and Contact Lenses with Flex Spending Account Before 1/1/13

    Updated: 2012-11-30 15:14:45
    FramesDirect.com eyewear specialists help customers beat their healthcare coverage deadline Austin, TX – December 3, 2012 – The eyewear specialists at FramesDirect.com announced that they are helping patients purchase prescription sunglasses, eyeglasses, and contact lenses through their Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs) in order to beat the 12/31/12deadline. FSA participants who do not use the money [...]

  • Demonstrating W-type entanglement of Dicke states in resonant cavity quantum electrodynamics

    Updated: 2012-11-30 15:00:00
    Author(s): J. A. Mlynek, A. A. Abdumalikov, Jr., J. M. Fink, L. Steffen, M. Baur, C. Lang, A. F. van Loo, and A. WallraffNonlinearity and entanglement are two important properties by which physical systems can be identified as nonclassical. We study the dynamics of the resonant interaction of up to N=3 two-level systems and a single mode of the electromagnetic field sharing a single excitation dynamically. We observe ...[Phys. Rev. A 86, 053838] Published Fri Nov 30, 2012

  • Multiplexed image storage by electromagnetically induced transparency in a solid

    Updated: 2012-11-30 15:00:00
    Author(s): G. Heinze, N. Rentzsch, and T. HalfmannWe report on frequency- and angle-multiplexed image storage by electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT) in a Pr3+:Y<sub2SiO5 crystal. Frequency multiplexing by EIT relies on simultaneous storage of light pulses in atomic coherences, driven in different frequency ensembles of the inhomogeneously br...[Phys. Rev. A 86, 053837] Published Fri Nov 30, 2012

  • Job Search Employment Optics and Photonics Career Center SPIE SPIE Career Center Electronic Imaging

    Updated: 2012-11-29 21:52:49
    , : , , , , , Create an account Sign in about SPIE contact us help shopping cart SEARCH Home Conferences Exhibitions Publications Education Membership Industry Resources Career Center News Videos Your session has expired Your session will expire in seconds Job Seekers Employers Pricing Job Fairs Salary Survey Advice Tools Receive job listings in your RSS reader Career Center For Job Seekers For Employers Home My Account Jobs Saved Jobs Help Job Detail Find other jobs Job Summary Lean Manufacturing Engineer POSTED : Nov 29 : Salary Open : Location Newton , New Jersey : Employer THORLABS : Type Full Time Experienced : Categories Electronic Imaging Signal Processing , Lasers , Optics Required : Education 4 Year Degree Employer Information About THORLABS Company Profile Thorlabs , Inc . is a

  • Dipole pulse theory: Maximizing the field amplitude from 4π focused laser pulses

    Updated: 2012-11-29 15:00:00
    Author(s): Ivan Gonoskov, Andrea Aiello, Simon Heugel, and Gerd LeuchsWe present a class of exact nonstationary solutions of Maxwell equations in vacuum from dipole pulse theory: electric and magnetic dipole pulses. These solutions can provide for a very efficient focusing of electromagnetic field and can be generated by 4π focusing systems, such as parabolic mirrors,...[Phys. Rev. A 86, 053836] Published Thu Nov 29, 2012

  • Axiomatic geometrical optics, Abraham-Minkowski controversy, and photon properties derived classically

    Updated: 2012-11-29 15:00:00
    Author(s): I. Y. Dodin and N. J. FischBy restating geometrical optics within the field-theoretical approach, the classical concept of a photon (and, more generally, any elementary excitation) in an arbitrary dispersive medium is introduced, and photon properties are calculated unambiguously. In particular, the canonical and kinetic mome...[Phys. Rev. A 86, 053834] Published Thu Nov 29, 2012

  • Phase measurement with classical light

    Updated: 2012-11-29 15:00:00
    Author(s): Sabine Wölk, Wenchao Ge, and M. Suhail ZubairyIn this paper we investigate whether it is, in general, possible to substitute maximally path-entangled states, namely, NOON states, with classical light in Doppleron-type resonant multiphoton detection processes by studying adaptive phase measurement with classical light. We show that multiphoton d...[Phys. Rev. A 86, 053833] Published Thu Nov 29, 2012

  • Time-bin-entangled photon holes

    Updated: 2012-11-28 15:00:00
    Author(s): J. Liang, J. D. Franson, and T. B. PittmanThe general concept of entangled photon holes is based on a correlated absence of photon pairs in an otherwise constant optical background. Here we consider the specialized case when this background is confined to two well-defined time bins, which allows the formation of time-bin-entangled photon ho...[Phys. Rev. A 86, 053831] Published Wed Nov 28, 2012

  • Job Search Employment Optics and Photonics Career Center SPIE SPIE Career Center Biomedical Optics M

    Updated: 2012-11-27 20:23:14
    , : , , , , Create an account Sign in about SPIE contact us help shopping cart SEARCH Home Conferences Exhibitions Publications Education Membership Industry Resources Career Center News Videos Your session has expired Your session will expire in seconds Job Seekers Employers Pricing Job Fairs Salary Survey Advice Tools Receive job listings in your RSS reader Career Center For Job Seekers For Employers Home My Account Jobs Saved Jobs Help Job Detail Find other jobs Job Summary Area Sales Manager f m Benelux – Lasers for Research Science Job Code : 3199 POSTED : Nov 27 : Salary Open : Location Netherlands : Employer Coherent : Type Full Time Experienced : Categories Biomedical Optics Medical Imaging , Lasers , Lithography Microelectronics Required : Education Masters Employer Information

  • Mie scattering of purely azimuthal Laguerre-Gauss beams: Angular-momentum-induced transparency

    Updated: 2012-11-27 15:00:00
    Author(s): Aaron S. Rury and Richard FreelingThe Mie scattering of a circularly polarized, purely azimuthal Laguerre-Gauss beam carrying orbital angular momentum from a particle small compared with the incident wavelength is treated analytically. Using the vector spherical harmonics, we show angular momentum conservation leads to two physical ...[Phys. Rev. A 86, 053830] Published Tue Nov 27, 2012

  • Job Search Employment Optics and Photonics Career Center SPIE SPIE Career Center Optics jobs Albuque

    Updated: 2012-11-27 01:14:50
    , : , , , Create an account Sign in about SPIE contact us help shopping cart SEARCH Home Conferences Exhibitions Publications Education Membership Industry Resources Career Center News Videos Your session has expired Your session will expire in seconds Job Seekers Employers Pricing Job Fairs Salary Survey Advice Tools Receive job listings in your RSS reader Career Center For Job Seekers For Employers Home My Account Jobs Saved Jobs Help Job Detail Find other jobs Job Summary Postdoctoral Appointee – Optical Engineering Job Code : 642200 POSTED : Nov 26 : Salary Open : Location Albuquerque , New Mexico : Employer Sandia National Laboratories : Type Temp to Full Time Experienced : Category Optics Required : Education Doctorate Employer Information About Sandia National Laboratories Sandia

  • Spatiotemporal collective excitations in photonic multiwire arrays

    Updated: 2012-11-26 15:00:00
    Author(s): E. ArévaloWe study theoretically the dynamics of collective excitations in one- and two-dimensional arrays of evanescent-wave coupled nonlinear photonic nanowires. This system shows a strong spatiotemporal coupling, which can be observed in its frequency-dependent reciprocal space. We have found that the firs...[Phys. Rev. A 86, 053829] Published Mon Nov 26, 2012

  • Ground-state cooling of a nanomechanical resonator with a triple quantum dot via quantum interference

    Updated: 2012-11-26 15:00:00
    Author(s): Jia-pei Zhu and Gao-xiang LiWe employ double quantum interference to propose a ground-state cooling scheme for a nanomechanical resonator coupled to a triple quantum dot (TQD), of which the third dot is driven by a microwave field. In our scheme, the carrier transition is diminished by the destructive interference (the occurre...[Phys. Rev. A 86, 053828] Published Mon Nov 26, 2012

  • Two-color quantum memory in double-Λ media

    Updated: 2012-11-26 15:00:00
    Author(s): D. Viscor, V. Ahufinger, J. Mompart, A. Zavatta, G. C. La Rocca, and M. ArtoniWe propose a quantum memory for a single-photon wave packet in a superposition of two different colors, i.e., two different frequency components, using the electromagnetically induced transparency technique in a double-Λ system. We examine a specific configuration in which the two frequency componen...[Phys. Rev. A 86, 053827] Published Mon Nov 26, 2012

  • Backaction limits on self-sustained optomechanical oscillations

    Updated: 2012-11-26 15:00:00
    Author(s): M. Poot, K. Y. Fong, M. Bagheri, W. H. P. Pernice, and H. X. TangThe maximum amplitude of mechanical oscillators coupled to optical cavities is studied both analytically and numerically. The optical backaction on the resonator enables self-sustained oscillations whose limit cycle is set by the dynamic range of the cavity. The maximum attainable amplitude and the ...[Phys. Rev. A 86, 053826] Published Mon Nov 26, 2012

  • FramesDirect.com Prescription Eyeglasses Company Creates Face Recognition Tool to Measure Pupil-to-Pupil Distance

    Updated: 2012-11-23 22:09:39
    Simply send in a photo to get the right prescription eyeglasses or sunglasses and eyewear frame size online Austin, TX – November 26, 2012 – Need prescription eyeglasses and sunglasses but don’t have the appropriate pupil distance (PD) measurements? Today, Dr. Dhavid Cooper, FramesDirect.com CEO and Co-founder, announced his new technology that obtains PD measurements [...]

  • Job Search Employment Optics and Photonics Career Center SPIE SPIE Career Center Defense Security jo

    Updated: 2012-11-22 21:16:10
    , : , , , , Create an account Sign in about SPIE contact us help shopping cart SEARCH Home Conferences Exhibitions Publications Education Membership Industry Resources Career Center News Videos Your session has expired Your session will expire in seconds Job Seekers Employers Pricing Job Fairs Salary Survey Advice Tools Receive job listings in your RSS reader Career Center For Job Seekers For Employers Home My Account Jobs Saved Jobs Help Job Detail Find other jobs Job Summary Senior Business Development Executive POSTED : Nov 22 : Salary Open : Location United States : Employer www.PowerPhotonic.com : Type Full Time Experienced : Categories Defense Security , Lasers , Optics Preferred : Education 4 Year Degree Employer Information About www.PowerPhotonic.com PowerPhotonic is a rapidly

  • Students take cosmic-ray balloon challenge

    Updated: 2012-11-22 15:35:58
    Can a group of school students get its cosmic-ray detector to work in a hot-air balloon?

  • Entanglement in atomic systems interacting with single-photon pulses in free space

    Updated: 2012-11-21 15:00:00
    Author(s): J. P. Santos and F. L. SemiãoNew technologies providing tightly focusing lenses and mirrors with large numerical apertures and electro-optic modulation of single photons are now available for the investigation of photon-atom interactions without a cavity. From the theoretical side, new models must be developed which take into a...[Phys. Rev. A 86, 053825] Published Wed Nov 21, 2012

  • Job Search Employment Optics and Photonics Career Center SPIE SPIE Career Center Optics jobs Marlbor

    Updated: 2012-11-20 21:44:01
    , : , , , Create an account Sign in about SPIE contact us help shopping cart SEARCH Home Conferences Exhibitions Publications Education Membership Industry Resources Career Center News Videos Your session has expired Your session will expire in seconds Job Seekers Employers Pricing Job Fairs Salary Survey Advice Tools Receive job listings in your RSS reader Career Center For Job Seekers For Employers Home My Account Jobs Saved Jobs Help Job Detail Find other jobs Job Summary Optical Engineer POSTED : Nov 20 : Salary Open : Location Marlborough , Massachusetts : Employer New England Optical Systems NEOS : Type Full Time Experienced : Category Optics Preferred : Education 4 Year Degree Employer Information About New England Optical Systems NEOS NEOS is an engineering and manufacturing

  • Steering far-field spin-dependent splitting of light by inhomogeneous anisotropic media

    Updated: 2012-11-20 15:00:00
    Author(s): Xiaohui Ling, Xinxing Zhou, Hailu Luo, and Shuangchun WenAn inhomogeneous anisotropic medium with specific structure geometry can apply the tunable spin-dependent geometrical phase to the light passing through the medium, and thus can be used to steer the spin-dependent splitting (SDS) of light. In this paper, we exemplify this inference by the q plate, a...[Phys. Rev. A 86, 053824] Published Tue Nov 20, 2012

  • Self-phase modulation and frequency generation with few-cycle optical pulses in nonlinear dispersive media

    Updated: 2012-11-19 15:00:00
    Author(s): Arkadiy A. Drozdov, Sergey A. Kozlov, Andrey A. Sukhorukov, and Yuri S. KivsharWe analyze nonlinear effects associated with the spatiotemporal propagation of few-cycle optical pulses in nonlinear dispersive media, including nonlinearity-induced self-phase modulation, generation of higher harmonics, and the effects of diffraction. First, we discuss the nonlinear equations gover...[Phys. Rev. A 86, 053822] Published Mon Nov 19, 2012

  • Light scattering in an optomechanical cavity coupled to a single atom

    Updated: 2012-11-16 15:00:00
    Author(s): Daniel Breyer and Marc BienertWe theoretically analyze the light scattering of an optomechanical cavity which strongly interacts with a single two-level system and couples simultaneously to a mechanical oscillator by radiation forces. The analysis is based on the assumptions that the system is driven at low intensity, and that t...[Phys. Rev. A 86, 053819] Published Fri Nov 16, 2012

  • Covariant photon wave mechanics of evanescent fields

    Updated: 2012-11-16 15:00:00
    Author(s): Ole Keller and Dann S. OlesenA photon wave mechanical theory describing evanescent electromagnetic fields, as these appear in p-polarized total internal reflection from a flat dielectric-to-vacuum interface, is presented. In this first-quantized field theory, the Lorenz gauge four-potential relates to the wave functions of the ...[Phys. Rev. A 86, 053818] Published Fri Nov 16, 2012

  • Frequency dependence and passive drains in fish-eye lenses

    Updated: 2012-11-16 15:00:00
    Author(s): O. Quevedo-Teruel, R. C. Mitchell-Thomas, and Y. HaoThe Maxwell fish eye lens has previously been reported as being capable of the much sought after phenomenon of subwavelength imaging. The inclusion of a drain in this system is considered crucial to the imaging ability, although its role is the topic of much debate. This paper provides a numerical i...[Phys. Rev. A 86, 053817] Published Fri Nov 16, 2012

  • Measuring the quantum nature of light with a single source and a single detector

    Updated: 2012-11-15 15:00:00
    Author(s): Gesine A. Steudle, Stefan Schietinger, David Höckel, Sander N. Dorenbos, Iman E. Zadeh, Valery Zwiller, and Oliver BensonAn elementary experiment in optics consists of a light source and a detector. Yet, if the source generates nonclassical correlations such an experiment is capable of unambiguously demonstrating the quantum nature of light. We realized such an experiment with a defect center in diamond and a supercon...[Phys. Rev. A 86, 053814] Published Thu Nov 15, 2012

  • Optical angular momentum in dispersive media

    Updated: 2012-11-14 15:00:00
    Author(s): T. G. Philbin and O. AllansonThe angular momentum density and flux of light in a dispersive, rotationally symmetric medium are derived from Noether's theorem. Optical angular momentum in a dispersive medium has no simple relation to optical linear momentum, even if the medium is homogeneous. A circularly polarized monochromatic...[Phys. Rev. A 86, 055802] Published Wed Nov 14, 2012

  • Enhancement of four reflection shifts by a three-layer surface-plasmon resonance

    Updated: 2012-11-14 15:00:00
    Author(s): Luca SalasnichWe investigate the effect of a surface-plasmon resonance on Goos-Hänchen and Imbert-Fedorov spatial and angular shifts in the reflection of a light beam by considering a three-layer system made of glass, gold, and air. We calculate these spatial and angular shifts as functions of the incidence angle...[Phys. Rev. A 86, 055801] Published Wed Nov 14, 2012

  • Pulse propagation in a medium of Λ-type atoms

    Updated: 2012-11-12 15:00:00
    Author(s): P. R. Berman and C. H. Raymond OoiThe propagation of a weak-field pulse through a medium of three-level atoms is considered. Each atom has a Λ-type level scheme in which the two lower levels are stable. A strong control field drives one of the electronic transitions while the signal field drives the coupled transition under conditio...[Phys. Rev. A 86, 053812] Published Mon Nov 12, 2012

  • Staying dry to stay alive: the ant raft and other water-repellent systems

    Updated: 2012-11-08 14:57:42
    View on demand: an online lecture presented by David Hu

  • Nanotechnology: the view from the community

    Updated: 2012-11-08 11:07:20
    Researchers share their thoughts on the significance of nanotechnology and its possible applications

  • The world's quietest building – a video tour

    Updated: 2012-11-08 11:03:14
    Physics World visits the Centre for Nanoscience and Quantum Information in Bristol

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