{"id":781,"date":"2019-06-20T14:44:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-20T04:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qo.lab.uq.edu.au\/?p=781"},"modified":"2025-05-14T09:20:34","modified_gmt":"2025-05-13T23:20:34","slug":"probing-nanoparticles-at-the-quantum-noise-limit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qo.lab.uq.edu.au\/?p=781","title":{"rendered":"Probing nanoparticles at the quantum noise limit"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Here at the Bowen lab, we don&#8217;t like labels. We also don&#8217;t like damaging precious samples. With our robust exposed-core fiber sensor, we don&#8217;t have to anymore. Thanks to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/equs.org\/users\/nicolas-mauranyapin\">Nico,\u00a0<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/equs.org\/users\/lars-madsen\">Lars,\u00a0<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/equs.org\/users\/larnii-booth\">Larnii\u00a0<\/a>and our collaborators at the University of Adelaide, when it comes to detecting nanoparticles, the\u00a0<em>quantum noise<\/em>\u00a0is the limit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"61\" src=\"https:\/\/qo.lab.uq.edu.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/optex_banner-1-1024x61.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-782\" srcset=\"https:\/\/qo.lab.uq.edu.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/optex_banner-1-1024x61.png 1024w, https:\/\/qo.lab.uq.edu.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/optex_banner-1-300x18.png 300w, https:\/\/qo.lab.uq.edu.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/optex_banner-1-768x46.png 768w, https:\/\/qo.lab.uq.edu.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/optex_banner-1.png 1097w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.osapublishing.org\/oe\/abstract.cfm?uri=oe-27-13-18601\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/qo.lab.uq.edu.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/exposedcore-1024x281.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-783\" srcset=\"https:\/\/qo.lab.uq.edu.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/exposedcore-1024x281.png 1024w, https:\/\/qo.lab.uq.edu.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/exposedcore-300x82.png 300w, https:\/\/qo.lab.uq.edu.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/exposedcore-768x210.png 768w, https:\/\/qo.lab.uq.edu.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/exposedcore.png 1522w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"216\" height=\"186\" src=\"https:\/\/qo.lab.uq.edu.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/getImage-1-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-784\"\/><figcaption>SEM image of the cross-section of an exposed-core fiber (scale bar = 100\u00a0\u03bc<br>m). Inset: SEM picture of the core of the exposed-core fiber (scale bar = 5\u00a0\u03bc<br>m).\u00a0From: Mauranyapin et al., Opt. Express\u00a0<strong>27<\/strong>, 18601-18611 (2019)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here at the Bowen lab, we don&#8217;t like labels. We also don&#8217;t like damaging precious samples. With our robust exposed-core fiber sensor, we don&#8217;t have to anymore. Thanks to\u00a0Nico,\u00a0Lars,\u00a0Larnii\u00a0and our collaborators at the University of Adelaide, when it comes to detecting nanoparticles, the\u00a0quantum noise\u00a0is the limit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive-2019"],"featured_image_src":null,"author_info":{"display_name":false,"author_link":"https:\/\/qo.lab.uq.edu.au\/?author=4"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qo.lab.uq.edu.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qo.lab.uq.edu.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qo.lab.uq.edu.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qo.lab.uq.edu.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qo.lab.uq.edu.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=781"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/qo.lab.uq.edu.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":785,"href":"https:\/\/qo.lab.uq.edu.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781\/revisions\/785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qo.lab.uq.edu.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qo.lab.uq.edu.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qo.lab.uq.edu.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}