Sunny Bains

Contributing Editor

Sunny Bains is a contributing editor for Laser Focus World and a technical journalist based in London, England.

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Neurophotonics: Photonics demonstrate brainlike behavior useful in machine learning

July 10, 2017

Photonics may be set to push the emerging field of neuromorphic engineering to new levels of computational and power efficiency over the next decade or two.

Research

Space holography used for real-world science

Sunny Bains

Jan. 1, 2005

A holographic technique intended for use in space has recently demonstrated the existence and behavior of a force called the history drag-a phenomenon predicted in 1887, but never...

Although C60 molecules have been used to make nonlinear optical materials before (reference numbers on the x axis refer to specific examples), the nonlinear response (y axis) has always fallen into a region below an experimentally determined limit (the lower of the two bars). The previously unreachable space between the bars has been known as the quantum gap. It has now been demonstrated that approaching the fundamental physical limit-getting into this quantum gap-is achievable.

Research

NONLINEAR MATERIALS: Optical-switching material breaches quantum gap

Sunny Bains

Dec. 1, 2004

Scientists at the University of Toronto (Toronto, Ont., Canada) and Carleton University (Ottawa, Ont., Canada) have demonstrated the first material that approaches fundamental...