Volume 60, Issue 01

This in-depth market update focuses on trends in laser processing and industrial lasers while touching on what to expect in the ultrafast laser, fiber laser, LiDAR, and handheld...

Rob Devlin, co-founder and CEO of Metalenz, shares the significant people that forged his path to developing one of the most promising optics companies in the world today.

A polymer-only ultraviolet imprint process potentially saves costs, simplifies the process, and increases the reliability of the optical element.

University of Sydney Nano Institute researchers are pioneering photonic silicon chips and helping spur growth in Australia’s semiconductor industry.

Rapid and accurate detection of a virus can quite literally make the difference between life and death. With this in mind, researchers created a mid-infrared photothermal microscope...

The 2023 survey of Laser Focus World’s community reveals high job satisfaction and optimism for the future.

Researchers improve soliton microcomb efficiency by 10x—and open the door to high-performance lasers for a range of other technologies.

The Dirac-vortex state, a mathematical analog of Majorana fermions (a.k.a. angel particles) within superconducting electronic systems, offers a larger free spectral range than...

Researchers tune an extreme ultraviolet high-harmonic generation (EUV HHG) light probe across the magnetic resonances of each element within a Heusler compound and track its electron...

A unique imaging technique could provide a deeper understanding of human physiological processes such as the female reproductive system.

Coverage within the 1- to 20-THz spectral region will enable exploration of a new class of physical phenomena: controlling materials’ functionality via light.