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Choosing the right gain fiber for your laser or amplifier

As a long-standing partner to equipment manufacturers, Exail leverages decades of industrial expertise to help engineers select an active fiber with properties matching the specific...

Oct. 15, 2026

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Don't miss Laser Focus World’s PhotonicsNXT 2026 virtual event!

Oct. 13, 2026

FIGURE 1. An echelle spectrograph disperses input light into multiple overlapping orders using a steep-blazed grating. A grism separates these orders perpendicularly and produces a 2D array of parallel spectra that are focused onto a CCD detector.

Advanced echelle gratings enable high-precision exoplanet detection

Oct. 9, 2026

From pixels to optical links: MicroLEDs pivot to copackaged optics

Oct. 8, 2026

Henri B. Kagan (left) and Kenso Soai (right), winners of the 2026 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

Discovery of ‘how and why’ homochirality emerges receives 2026 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Oct. 7, 2026

FIGURE 1. Stray light missing the primary mirror and reaching the detector.

Virtual prototyping before hardware: From optical design to system performance

Oct. 5, 2026

Tailor-made, large nonlinearities within nanophotonic devices?

Oct. 1, 2026

Andrea Arduin (left) and Professor Ole Bang, who heads the Fiber Sensors and Supercontinuum Group at DTU Electro, in the lab.

Lasers & Sources

‘Cooked’ fiber doubles range of ultralow-noise supercontinuum lasers

Sept. 30, 2026

UC Riverside and LIGO Laboratory researchers move a 40-kg LIGO mirror into position to test a prototype FROSTI wavefront actuator in vacuum.

Detectors & Imaging

Wide-aperture wavefront sensing from thermal imaging

Sept. 29, 2026