Take a look at physics.aps.org for my Viewpoint article on Efficient All-Optical Switching Using Slow Light within a Hollow Fiber by Bajcsy et al. The work demonstrates an all-optical switch that was built by inserting cold Rubidium atoms into the hollow core of a photonic-crystal fiber. These fibers have been used in a wide range [...]
Archive for May, 2009
Physics Viewpoint
Posted in physics, tagged atoms, fiber, switching on May 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
It’s not you, it’s my funding
Posted in college, physics, teaching on May 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I am wrapping up my first year and recently faced the most difficult decision of my time here. Of course, there have been easy decisions and hard decisions all year, but they were all things that I expected from deciding to fail a smart student who turns in no homework to how do I respond [...]
