Sentences with phrase «powered by photons»

Not exact matches

A NEW kind of laser that powers up by freezing light in its tracks could lead to computers that run on photons, instead of electrons.

More wildly, future iterations of Sprites could become Breakthrough's hoped - for «StarChips» — spacecraft integrated with gossamer - thin, meter - wide «lightsails» that would travel at 20 percent the speed of light to Alpha Centauri or other nearby stars, propelled by high - powered pulses of photons from a gargantuan ground - based laser array.

This ability could have implications for optical computing, a type of computing in which electrons are replaced by photons that could greatly enhance processing power but has proven extremely difficult to engineer.

By sending more laser power to the quantum dot, the researchers could force it to emit exactly two photons rather than one.

A team led by Prof. Laszlo Veisz has developed a novel high - power laser capable of emitting bursts of infrared light — each consisting of only a few oscillation cycles — which contain 100 times as many photons per pulse as in conventional systems.

This suggests that the instantaneous peak power delivered to the specimen may be an even more important metric of cell health than the total photon dose and should enable extended 3D observation of endogenous levels of even sparsely expressed proteins produced by genome editing.

Invisible infrared light from a semiconductor laser diode, powered by batteries, is passed through a crystal that allows photons to interact with each other.

Krivitsky notes that rod - cell efficiency is comparable to the quantum efficiencies of state - of - the - art human - made single - photon detectors such as photomultipliers (40 per cent) and avalanche photodiodes (50 per cent); remarkably, rod cells occupy an area of only 5 by 50 micrometers and contain their own power supply.

Powered only by the pressure of the sun's photons striking its eight massive Mylar - like panels, Cosmos 1 will be unique.

The analysis described in this paper fully exploits the potential of the hybrid technique by means of a multivariate analysis to achieve an unprecedented discrimination power between photon - and nucleus - induced air showers.

The additional energy warms the atmosphere and results in more photons — exponentially greater to the 4th power with temperature — cascading around and more escaping the planet just by chance restoring the conditional energy balance.

Radiation Pressure doesn't depend on the density of the substance, but on the incident power exerted by a photon stream on a given surface.