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Scientists Report a New Class of Chirp-Free Pulse in Normal-Dispersion Fiber Lasers

Over the past decades, researchers have demonstrated conventional solitons, stretched pulses, self-similar pulses, and dissipative solitons by managing the dispersion and nonlinearity of fiber lasers.

25 Mar 2022

Study Evaluates the Importance of Laser-Modified Fluorescence for Various Applications

The extensive lineage of laser-based operations has made a significant contribution to the production, modification, and patterning of numerous nanomaterial systems over the years.

24 Mar 2022

Stanford Engineers Develop High-Brightness, Stretchy, Reshapable Color Displays

No one would ever imagine crumpling up their smartphone, television or another electronic device. Today's displays – which are flat, rigid and fragile – lack the ability to reshape to interactively respond to users.

24 Mar 2022

New Single-Photon Source Paves the Way for Practical Applications of Quantum Technology

Researchers have developed a new high-purity single-photon source that can operate at room temperature. The source is an important step toward practical applications of quantum technology, such as highly secure communication based on quantum key distribution (QKD).

24 Mar 2022

NIL Technology Announces Flat Optics Technology Platform For Metaverse Glasses and Headsets

NIL Technology (NILT), a leader in modern optical solutions, announces that they are releasing highly precise nanostructured flat optics that are ideal for 3D sensing and machine vision applications in metaverse products.

From NIL Technology ApS 24 Mar 2022

New Method to Advance Microscopic Imaging to Capture High Resolution, 3D Images

Imaging technologies are crucial to contemporary medicine and early-stage diagnosis, potentially enhancing patient outcomes.

23 Mar 2022

Quantum Dots for Imaging Macrophages in Fat

To accurately diagnose and treat diseases, doctors and researchers need to see inside bodies. Medical imaging tools have come a long way since the humble x-ray, but most existing tools remain too coarse to quantify numbers or specific types of cells inside deep tissues of the body.

23 Mar 2022

Advanced Spatio-Temporal OCT for Better Diagnoses of Various Blinding Diseases

Worldwide, as many as 285 million people suffer from serious eye diseases or blindness. Unfortunately, most of them do not have access to modern methods of treatment, so help often comes too late.

23 Mar 2022

Study Reveals a Viable Way for Creating Diamond-Based Nonlinear Optical Temperature Sensing

Scientists from the Faculty of Pure and Applied Sciences at the University of Tsukuba have developed a method for monitoring the temperature using the naturally occurring atom-like defects in diamonds.

23 Mar 2022

UNIGE Researchers Succeed in Storing a Qubit for 20 Milliseconds

Computers, smartphones, GPS: quantum physics has enabled many technological advances. It is now opening up new fields of research in cryptography (the art of coding messages) with the aim of developing ultra-secure telecommunications networks.

23 Mar 2022

Using a Laser System to Generate Attosecond Pulses at 100 kHz Repetition Rate

Attosecond laser pulses in the extreme ultraviolet (XUV) are a unique tool enabling the observation and control of electron dynamics in atoms, molecules, and solids.

23 Mar 2022

New MicroLED Array Film to Cover the Brain and Illuminate its Specific Regions

Associate Professor Hiroto Sekiguchi of Toyohashi University of Technology’s Department of Electrical and Electronic Information Engineering, along with other collaborators developed a pliant and multipoint microLED array film.

21 Mar 2022

A Direct, Efficient Method for Generation of Complex Structured Light

Extension of laser beam structures promises new laser applications. Exploration of how beam structures change during nonlinear frequency conversion processes has drawn increasing interest in recent years.

21 Mar 2022

Metasurface Attachment can Turn Any Imaging System into Polarization Cameras

Polarization, the direction in which light vibrates, provides a lot of information about the objects with which it interacts, from aerosols in the atmosphere to the magnetic field of stars.

21 Mar 2022

Using Higgs Spectroscopy to Better Understand Superconductors

Superconductivity is a macroscopic quantum state characterized by the disappearance of electrical resistance in materials at extremely low temperatures.

21 Mar 2022