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Photonis announces agreement to acquire Xenics

Photonis a global leader of highly differentiated technology for defence and industrial markets, held by HLD since 2021, today announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Xenics, a specialist developer...

From PHOTONIS Technologies S.A.S. 15 Dec 2022

Analyzing Photo-Processing of Perovskites

Considerable advancement has been witnessed in the development of semiconducting metal-halide perovskites (MHPs) for the past 20 years.

15 Dec 2022

Researchers Develop All-Optical Approach to Pumping Chip-Based Nanolasers

Researchers have developed a new all-optical method for driving multiple highly dense nanolaser arrays. The approach could enable chip-based optical communication links that process and move data faster than today’s electronic-based devices.

15 Dec 2022

Ultra-Fast Water-Based Switch Uses a Powerful Laser

At the Ruhr University Bochum, Germany, scientists have come up with an ultra-fast water-based switch.

15 Dec 2022

Studying Magnetic Reconnection with High-Powered Lasers

To better understand the mechanisms underlying the fundamental astronomical phenomenon known as magnetic reconnection, scientists recreated small solar flares using twelve powerful lasers.

8 Dec 2022

Adopting Efficient Method to Develop Effective X-Ray Systems

Scientists at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory of the Department of Energy have expanded the functionalities of the lab’s Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) X-Ray free-electron laser (XFEL).

7 Dec 2022

New Method to Quantify Time in Billionths of a Billionth of a Second

How quickly do electrons within a molecule travel? It is extremely quick, about a few attoseconds (1 as = 10–18 seconds or one billionth of a billionth of a second) to move from one atom to the next.

6 Dec 2022

Realization of the First Continuous-Wave Deep-UV Laser Diode Laser

The world’s first room-temperature continuous-wave lasing of a deep-ultraviolet laser diode (wavelengths down to UV-C region) was completed by a research team at Nagoya University’s Institute of Materials and Systems for Sustainability (IMaSS) in central Japan, under the direction of 2014 Nobel laureate Hiroshi Amano.

25 Nov 2022

Novel Time-Lens Device Advances Quantum Computing and More

Femtosecond pulsed lasers—which discharge light in ultrafast bursts enduring for a millionth of a billionth of a second—are robust tools employed in several applications from manufacturing and medicine, to sensing and precision measurements of time and space.

17 Nov 2022

Novel Spiderweb-Like Lasers Designed to Discharge Light in Controlled Colors

Scientists have built a laser platform established on a network resembling a spider’s web, which can be accurately regulated to generate diverse light colors.

10 Nov 2022