Maybe it’s time to awaken your inner movie director. “Ready when you are, CB!” And then, “Lights, camera, action!” Who knows, you may get your future 15 minutes of fame the video...
New optoelectronics market figures for 2005 released last month by the Optoelectronics Industry Development Association paint an optimistic picture of an industry that is “. ....
Coherent (Santa Clara, CA) President and CEO John Ambroseo used the occasion of the company’s fourth quarter fiscal 2006 conference call on Nov. 1 to speak out strongly about ...
Basic research nourishes the growth of photonic metamaterials and plasmonics, while the desires of the consumer result in laser TV and higher-capacity optical disks. At the center...
OPS technology is finding increased use because of its wavelength and power scalability, as well as other important benefits, including extremely low amplitude noise and longer...
Researchers at the Academy of Sciences and Czech Technical University (both in Prague, Czech Republic) have demonstrated a novel end-pumping scheme that can be used to develop...
In the interests of improving the contrast of organic flat-panel displays, researchers at Jilin University (Changchun, China) have created white organic light-emitting devices...
Composed of arrays of silicon Geiger-mode avalanche photodiodes, solid-state silicon photomultipliers are small and rugged; in many applications, they can replace photomultiplier...
Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research (MPI-P; Mainz, Germany) and Sony Deutschland, Materials Science Laboratory (Stuttgart, Germany) have demonstrated ...
Free-electron lasers, excitation with high-power short-pulse lasers, high-intensity pulsed discharges, and high-order harmonic generation have brought the extreme-ultraviolet ...
Although previous experiments have shown that the growth of neuronal cells can be guided by 800 or 1064 nm light, a detailed comparison of these wavelengths for neuronal growth...
This image of the Sun was taken Oct. 28 by the X-Ray Telescope (XRT) on the Hinode spacecraft observatory, intended to investigate solar magnetic variability and space weather...
Laser pyrolysis is a gas-phase process in which light at 10.6 µm from a continuous-wave carbon dioxide (CO2) laser is absorbed by a material in a flowing gas stream; the absorbed...
Square glass rods have always been one of the best ways to create a uniform field of light from a laser beam (except for laser-speckle effects); such a field can be useful for...
Researchers at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR; Boulder, CO), Earth Observing Laboratory have developed an ultrasensitive laser-based trace-gas-absorption sensor...
To reduce the effects of stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS) and photodarkening in silica-based fiber lasers (both factors can reduce achievable output power), the fiber core...
