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    The laserfocusworld.com Optics channel features articles and other content that discuss precision optical components, systems, and applications.

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    Optics

    Hyperbolic mirrors enhance petawatt laser focus

    Sally Cole Johnson
    May 2, 2024
    Researchers discover single-wavelength focal spots can be achieved by combining a rotational hyperbolic mirror with a parabolic mirror for current femtosecond petawatt-class lasers...
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    Optics

    Metafluids with programmable optical properties?

    Sally Cole Johnson
    April 26, 2024
    A metafluid with tunable optical properties, compressibility, viscosity, and the ability to transition between a Newtonian and non-Newtonian fluid? Yes, really.
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    Podcasts

    PODCAST: Interview with Thomas Obeloer, Element Six

    Justine Murphy
    April 17, 2024
    Episode 5 of Following the Photons: A Photonics Podcast features Thomas Obeloer, international sales director at Element Six.
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    Fiber Optics

    Quantum Corridor opens door to fast, secure comms in Midwest U.S.

    Sally Cole Johnson
    March 14, 2024
    In this Q&A with Ryan Lafler, president and chief technology officer of Quantum Corridor, he discusses the project and shares its goals and potential applications.
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    Optics

    ZEISS and Imperial College London run optics summer program for teens

    Sally Cole Johnson
    March 11, 2024
    Teens—14 and 15 years old—get opportunity to immerse themselves in optics for a week during the summer.
    Optics

    Reflective beam expanders produce no central obscuration

    LFW Staff
    March 1, 2024
    A-1 Series reflective beam expanders have standard magnification configurations of 3.5x, 5x, 7.5x, 10x, and 30x.
    Optics

    Alignment turning stations include software enhancement

    LFW Staff
    Feb. 29, 2024
    ATS 100, 200, 200 UP, and 300 UP alignment turning stations now enable advanced processing capabilities.
    Optics

    Collimating lens assemblies operate over 350 to 2000 nm

    LFW Staff
    Feb. 28, 2024
    CL12G and CL30G fiber-optic collimating lenses have lens diameters of 12.5 and 30 mm, respectively.
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    Quantum

    Polaritonic nanocavities redefine limits of light confinement

    Sally Cole Johnson
    Feb. 26, 2024
    A team of researchers in Israel and Spain create a new type of light confinement—and open the door to new quantum electrodynamics experiments.