When used in Raman-scattering gas-sensing systems for breath analysis, air-quality monitoring, and other needs, fiber lasers reduce system size and complexity.
Slanted Light Interrogation for Cross-correlated Encoder Recording (SLICER) records ultrafast single-shot events over record-long lengths using a pump-probe-style architecture...
Quantum sensing may reach industry before cryptography or computing—an example is a Berlin collaboration that is miniaturizing the lasers for satellite operations in which quantum...
With continuously improving efficiency and power, laser diodes will continue to displace legacy technologies, both changing the way things are made and enabling new things to ...
Consumer electronics are driving growth to new heights for laser manufacturers and laser materials processing equipment providers and, in turn, enabling markets that need yet ...
Using silicon LEDs biased in "avalanche breakdown" mode to generate visible light that is easily detected by standard silicon photodiodes in a high-quantum-efficiency process ...
NIST has provided data on its radiation-pressure power meter in a manufacturing test environment for beam powers in the range of 20 kW, comparing these results to those gathered...
Surface treatments that include magnetorheological finishing, etching with hydrofluoric acid, ion-beam sputtering, and others can improve the post-polished surface quality of ...
A group has come up with an effective configuration for nanostructured TiO2 for UV photodetection made of hollow TiO2 nanospheres on p-type gallium nitride (GaN).
Researchers have succeeded in developing a high-power 589 nm sodium laser pulsed at the Larmor frequency in the 200-350 kHz range for remote magnetometry.
Researchers have developed an optical scheme that uses dual-wavelength illumination that introduces chromatic aberration in a singlet lens to double the depth of field (DOF).
Researchers have designed and fabricated a robust varifocal microlens array that operates by applying a voltage across a flexible transparent dielectric elastomer to force the...
Forecasting photonics in 2018 is a risky endeavor and I’ll keep in mind the quote attributed to Danish physicist Niels Bohr, "Prediction is very difficult, especially about the...
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