| | | | | | | | An optical revolution? Advancements in the design and manufacture of optical components leverages properties of metasurfaces and meta-optics to surpass traditional optical hardware's capabilities. |
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| | | | | | In this episode: Holograms push next-level digital security, the latest business news roundup, and thin-film polariton filters break the fundamental limit of angular dispersion. |
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| | | | | | Scientists discover a robust and scalable nanomaterial can act as a binary optical switch or a tiny memory unit—and this all-optical process can be controlled to store information or toggle light outputs at the nanoscale akin to a transistor toggling electrical signals. |
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| | | | | | In this Q&A, Owen Price, project manager of target systems for QinetiQ, chats with Laser Focus World about its Rattler Supersonic Target Mkl variants to measure high-energy laser characteristics in flight—at supersonic speeds. |
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| | | | | | Join us to learn the best way to choose and define individual filter performance for superior spectral compatibility with other filters in a set or optical system. |
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| | | | | | We wrapped our first year of Following the Photons: A Photonics Podcast; here are the episodes that were most popular with listeners. |
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| | | | | | Researchers create a germanium infrared photodiode that’s 35% more responsive at 1.55 µm—a common wavelength for telecommunications—than its other germanium and indium gallium arsenide counterparts. |
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| | | | | | Laser pulsing with different pulse shapes reduces heat and increases strength in busbar welding for prismatic lithium-ion batteries. |
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