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| | | | | | Plasma channels produced by self-focusing ultrashort laser pulses can disrupt and deflect laser beams and may offer a future defense against adversarial laser systems. |
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| | | | | | Who benefits from cuts that create a national security crisis? |
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| | Sponsored | | Join the global optical networking and communications community at OFC 2025, where industry leaders, researchers and innovators converge to showcase the latest advancements. Gain insights from cutting-edge research, discover breakthrough technologies to advance your business and expand your professional network. |
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| | | | | | Episode 43 of Following the Photons: A Photonics Podcast features our Light News photonics news roundup for March 18, 2025. |
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| | | | | | Glass, in its many forms, is central to our future with artificial intelligence. |
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| | Sponsored | | Alluxa offers and manufactures high-performance optical thin films. All of Alluxa's thin-film optical filters and mirrors are hard-coated using a proprietary plasma deposition process on equipment that was designed and built by our team. This allows us to repeatably produce the same high-performance optical thin films in all of our coating chambers. |
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| | | | | | The event, set to take place April 1st in San Francisco, CA, will provide invaluable insights to drive the future of integrated photonics. |
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| | Sponsored | | SemiNex introduces the latest high-gain SOA/RSOA Array technologies, available in C-band and O-band. They excel with Si PIC integration for optical networks, data centers, and high-power computing. Proprietary epitaxy and waveguide design enable SOA/RSOAs with world-leading high-output power and high-temperature performance. Customized solutions with multichannel arrays are available upon request. |
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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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![FIGURE 1. Modeling of femtosecond pulse propagation can be achieved by solving the nonlinear Schrödinger equation via COMSOL; the inset is an image of a filament of plasma [2].](https://img.laserfocusworld.com/files/base/ebm/lfw/image/2025/03/67dada65807595e57f0ecc7e-2505lfw_cha_1_web.png?auto=format&fit=fill&fill=solid&w=650&h=359&cache=0.7526664144411268)
