{"id":91896,"date":"2019-06-10T14:02:47","date_gmt":"2019-06-10T21:02:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/fiber-optic-probe-can-see-molecular-bonds"},"modified":"2019-06-10T14:02:47","modified_gmt":"2019-06-10T21:02:47","slug":"fiber-optic-probe-can-see-molecular-bonds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/fiber-optic-probe-can-see-molecular-bonds","title":{"rendered":"Fiber-optic probe can see molecular bonds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/fiber-optic-probe-can-see-molecular-bonds.gif\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In \u201cAvengers: Endgame,\u201d Tony Stark warned Scott Lang that sending him into the quantum realm and bringing him back would be a \u201cbillion-to-one cosmic fluke.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In reality, shrinking a <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/light+beam\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">light beam<\/a> to a nanometer-sized point to spy on quantum-scale <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/light\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">light<\/a>-matter interactions and retrieving the information is not any easier. Now, engineers at the University of California, Riverside, have developed a new technology to tunnel light into the quantum realm at an unprecedented efficiency.<\/p>\n<p>In a <i>Nature Photonics<\/i> paper, a team led by Ruoxue Yan, an assistant professor of chemical and <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/environmental+engineering\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">environmental engineering<\/a>, and Ming Liu, an assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering, describe the world\u2019s first portable, inexpensive, optical nanoscopy tool that integrates a glass optical fiber with a silver nanowire condenser. The device is a high-efficiency round-trip light tunnel that squeezes visible light to the very tip of the condenser to interact with molecules locally and send back information that can decipher and visualize the elusive nanoworld.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2019-06-fiber-optic-probe-molecular-bonds.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In \u201cAvengers: Endgame,\u201d Tony Stark warned Scott Lang that sending him into the quantum realm and bringing him back would be a \u201cbillion-to-one cosmic fluke.\u201d In reality, shrinking a light beam to a nanometer-sized point to spy on quantum-scale light-matter interactions and retrieving the information is not any easier. Now, engineers at the University of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,4,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-engineering","category-nanotechnology","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91896","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91896\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}