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New Optical Framed Knots Could be Applied in Modern Technologies

In a world first, researchers from the University of Ottawa in collaboration with Israeli scientists have been able to create optical framed knots in the laboratory that could potentially be applied in modern technologies.

19 Oct 2020

Ultrafast Photography Cameras Capture 3D Videos at 100 Billion Frames Per Second

In his quest to bring ever-faster cameras to the world, Caltech's Lihong Wang has developed technology that can reach blistering speeds of 70 trillion frames per second, fast enough to see light travel.

19 Oct 2020

New Revolutionary Optical Microscope to Accurately Identify Tumors

The VIBRA project, "Very fast Imaging by Broadband coherent Raman", has just ended at the Politecnico di Milano.

19 Oct 2020

New Method to Measure Temporal Electric Field Evolution of Ultrashort Laser Pulses

Researchers at the University of Ottawa have developed a new technique to quantify the temporal evolution of electric fields with optical frequencies.

19 Oct 2020

Meet the New All-Fiber Jasper Flex

Fluence is excited to introduce its new femtosecond laser product, the Jasper Flex. With power up to 30 W, the innovative Jasper Flex is intended for systems with volume constraints that require high laser power and outstanding pulse quality.

From Fluence sp. z o.o. 19 Oct 2020

Researchers Use Single Particle Imaging and Deep Learning to Detect SARS-CoV-2 in Minutes

A team of researchers from several institutions has recently published a paper describing a new diagnostics method for the identification of SARS-CoV-2.

By Rebecca Ingle, Ph.D 16 Oct 2020

Microchip Technology Converts Near-Infrared Laser Light into Different Visible Colors

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the University of Maryland have developed a microchip technology that can convert invisible near-infrared laser light into any one of a panoply of visible laser colors, including red, orange, yellow and green.

15 Oct 2020

Scientists Find a New Way to Manipulate Magnets with Laser Light Pulses

Scientists have discovered a new way to manipulate magnets with laser light pulses shorter than a trillionth of a second.

14 Oct 2020

Researchers Develop Ultrafast Fiber Laser that Delivers Record High Power

Researchers have developed an ultrafast fiber laser that delivers an average power more than ten times what is available from today's high-power lasers.

14 Oct 2020

Researchers Demonstrate Actively Controlled Transport of Stored Light

A team of physicists led by Professor Patrick Windpassinger at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz has successfully transported light stored in a quantum memory over a distance of 1.2 millimeters.

14 Oct 2020

Research Could Lead to a Breakthrough in Coherent Optical Communication

The Department of Engineering, Aarhus University, has received a grant from the Independent Research Fund Denmark to investigate nonlinear effects in semiconductor lasers - a stepping-stone to enable next generation higher-order modulation in fibre optic networks.

14 Oct 2020