Smart Structures is a rapidly advancing field with the range of support and enabling technologies having made significant advances, notably optics and electronics. Whilst piezoelectric actuators and fiber optic sensors have been accorded the most attention, other techniques such as Shape Memory Alloys, Magneto Restrictive Materials and Electro-Rheological Fluids also have niche applications. Fu...

Magnetic and orientational behavior of nickel hydroxide nanoplatelets ionically stabilized in a liquid matrix is studied. Under an applied field the platelets orient their faces normal to its direction. For characterization of the individual behavior of dispersed and non-interacting particles three techniques are used: SAXS, SQUID and magneto-optics. Analysis reveals that nickel hydroxide in a ...

Atomic Physics Atomic & Optical Physics AFM Atomic Force Microscope [1] ATM Atomic Physics [2] CO2 CO2 Laser [3] MNO Nonlinear Spectroscopy & Magneto-Optics [4] MOT Atom Trapping [5] NMR Nuclear Magnetic Resonance [6] OPT Optical Pumping [7] QIE Quantum Interference & Entanglement [8] Powered by Drupal Source URL: http://experimentationlab.berkeley.edu/node/75 Links [1] http://dev-physicsadv.pa...

Atomic Physics Atomic & Optical Physics AFM Atomic Force Microscope [1] ATM Atomic Physics [2] CO2 CO2 Laser [3] MNO Nonlinear Spectroscopy & Magneto-Optics [4] MOT Atom Trapping [5] NMR Nuclear Magnetic Resonance [6] OPT Optical Pumping [7] QIE Quantum Interference & Entanglement [8] Powered by Drupal Source URL: http://experimentationlab.berkeley.edu/node/75 Links [1] http://dev-physicsadv.pa...

--------------------------------------------------------------ABSTRACT--------------------------------------------------------Precision surface finishes are used in a wide variety of applications. From bearing races and rolling elements to parallel slide ways, the topography of these surfaces is critical to the performance of the products. With the advent of diamond turning and other abrasive p...

Introduction Creating compact on-chip non-reciprocal components is of fundamental interest in integrated optics at telecom wavelength of 1.55 μm. Today a lot of integrated functions are available commercially such as lasers, couplers, filters, modulators, but there is a lack of non-reciprocal integrated functions like optical isolators and circulators. Commercial optical isolators are expensive...

A reflection-mode aperture-type scanning near-field optical microscope ~R-SNOM! based on the external collection of the reflected light is presented. The light detection is based on an elliptical mirror setup, with the tip and sample at one focus, and a photomultiplier tube at the other. Results are presented on the general imaging properties of this microscope. The results presented concentrat...

A general use of the adaptive optics requires an artificial guide star created by focusing a laser beam tuned to the sodium D2 line. We propose here a system to monitor the column density of the mesospheric sodium layer which is based on the sodium magneto-optical filter already widely used in solar observations. The principal characteristics of this system are high transmission and high spectr...