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Researchers use light to reprogram a photonic device
19
OCT
Researchers use light to reprogram a photonic device

A new technique that allows optical components to be reprogrammed by laser light could open the way for a new generation of telecommunications and signal processing technology. Until recently photonic devices were static – if you wanted different behaviour you would have to build a new component, but by rotating liquid crystals with a laser, a team of physicists has literally found a lever and created a tunable...

A new technique that allows optical components to be reprogrammed by laser light could open the way for a new generation of telecommunications...

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ANU physicists elected ATSE Fellows
13
OCT
ANU physicists elected ATSE Fellows

Two researchers from the Research School of Physics have been elected Fellows of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering...

Ultra-precise coatings help power the next generation of gravitational wave detectors
01
OCT
Ultra-precise coatings help power the next generation of gravitational wave detectors

The global collaboration hunting gravitational waves, LIGO, will take its search for colliding black holes and neutron stars to the next level,...

Megavolts 16: Accelerator runs extreme checkups for Australia’s first Lunar Rover
28
SEP
Megavolts 16: Accelerator runs extreme checkups for Australia’s first Lunar Rover

Components from Australia’s lunar rover, ‘Roo-ver’, visited the space testing facility at the ANU Heavy Ion Accelerator Facility...

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