The age-old proverb "Necessity is the mother of invention" came to fruition because people needed to find solutions (or come up with inventions) to solve problems that were usually quite urgent. For ...

One of southern California’s oldest giant sequoias holds more leaves than there are people in China. It has stood since there were fewer people on Earth than live in modern Japan—more than 3,000 years ...

The Rudolph Research J257 Wide Range Refractometer was developed by working together with laboratory refractometer users from the polymer, petroleum, petrochemical, pharmaceutical and essential oil ...

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Abstract: A temperature-insensitive fiber refractometer, which consists of a simple single-mode–multimode–single-mode fiber optic scheme, is theoretically proposed and experimentally demonstrated. The ...

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Abstract: The fabrication of optical fiber refractometers by means of the deposition of a thin indium-oxide coating onto an optical fiber core is presented. Indium-oxide permits the guided light in ...

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