{"id":130531,"date":"2021-11-13T08:24:36","date_gmt":"2021-11-13T16:24:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/tiny-chip-provides-a-big-boost-in-precision-optics"},"modified":"2021-11-13T08:24:36","modified_gmt":"2021-11-13T16:24:36","slug":"tiny-chip-provides-a-big-boost-in-precision-optics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/tiny-chip-provides-a-big-boost-in-precision-optics","title":{"rendered":"Tiny chip provides a big boost in precision optics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/tiny-chip-provides-a-big-boost-in-precision-optics.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you want to measure something with very high precision, you almost always use an <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/optical+interferometer\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">optical interferometer<\/a>, because light makes for a very precise ruler,\u201d says Jaime Cardenas, assistant professor of optics at the University of Rochester.<\/p>\n<p>Now, the Cardenas Lab has created a way to make these optical workhorses even more useful and sensitive. Meiting Song, a Ph.D. student, has for the first time packaged an experimental way of amplifying interferometric signals\u2014without a corresponding increase in extraneous, unwanted input, or \u201cnoise\u201d\u2014on a 1 mm by 1 mm integrated photonic <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/chip\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">chip<\/a>. The breakthrough, described in <i>Nature Communications<\/i>, is based on a theory of weak value amplification with waveguides that was developed by Andrew Jordan, a professor of physics at Rochester, and students in his lab.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIf you want to measure something with very high precision, you almost always use an optical interferometer, because light makes for a very precise ruler,\u201d says Jaime Cardenas, assistant professor of optics at the University of Rochester. Now, the Cardenas Lab has created a way to make these optical workhorses even more useful and sensitive. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1522],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-innovation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130531\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}