We demonstrate matter-wave interference in a warm vapor of rubidium atoms. Established approaches to light-pulse atom interferometry rely on laser cooling to concentrate a large ensemble of atoms into a velocity class resonant with the atom optical light pulse. In our experiment, we show that clear interference signals may be obtained without laser cooling. This effect relies on the Doppler sel...

We demonstrate interference of spontaneous emission of light from two distant solid-state atomic ensembles, when both ensembles are coherently excited by a common laser source. Owing to a strong collective enhancement of the spontaneous emission, the atoms behave as ideal two-level quantum systems and no which-path information is left in the atomic ensembles after emission of a photon. This all...

We demonstrate an interferometric fiber-optic bending/nano-displacement sensor based on a plastic dual-core fiber. The light coupled into the two fiber cores is first guided along the fiber, and then reflected by the mirror coated at the fiber end. Reflected light coming out of the fiber produces interference that shifts as the fiber bends. The interference shift is interrogated using a slit an...

WW/ZZ interference for Higgs signal and continuum background as well as signal-background interference is studied for same-flavour lν̄ll̄νl final states produced in gluon-gluon scattering at the LHC for light and heavy Higgs masses with minimal and realistic experimental selection cuts. For the signal cross section, we find WW/ZZ interference effects of O(5%) at MH = 126 GeV. For MH ≥ 200 GeV, we...

Measurements of two-photon-excited fluorescence (TPF) of fluorescein and Rhodamine 6G in various solvents were performed with a continuous-wave (cw) laser for excitation and an acousto-optic tunable filter for spectral dispersion. Interestingly, the cw laser excitation produced an unwanted thermal-lens effect when the measurements were performed in solvents that absorb the excitation laser ligh...

With the explosion of the Internet of Things (IoT), the number of devices to identify grew up exponentially in recent years and solutions such as visual markers or radio technologies are starting to show their limits. Visible light markers have been proposed to overcome these limitations. However, visible light communication (VLC) is very sensitive to interferences. As such, if two light marker...

We describe a near infrared (NIR) light-activated gene silencing method in undifferentiated human embryonic stem cell (hESC) using a plasmonic hollow gold nanoshell (HGN) as the siRNA carrier. Our modular biotin-streptavidin coupling strategy enables positively charged TAT-peptide to coat oligonucleotides-saturated nanoparticles as a stable colloid formation. TAT-peptide coated nanoparticles wi...

Interference of two combined white light beams produces Newton colors if one of the beams is retarded relative to the other by from 400 nm to 2000 nm. In this case the corresponding interfering spectral components are added as two scalars at the beam combination. If the retardance is below 400 nm the two-beam interference produces grey shades only. The interference colors are widely used for an...

In a multiantenna system, there is a potential antenna gain against interference, in addition to the diversity gain achieved against fading. It is well known that in order to attain most of the diversity gain (against fading), the antenna elements should be placed apart with a distance (many times) greater than the wavelength = [speed of light] [frequency] of the carrier. The results presented ...

This paper presents a high speed surface profile optical measurement technique based on white light spectral interferometry and parallel signal processing using a general purpose graphic processing unit (GPGPU). A white light source is used to acquire the surface profile of the sample instantly in real time through a cylindrical Michelson interferometer. The interference signals are resolved by...