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Color-Sorting Metalenses Boost Imaging Sensitivity

Researchers have shown that newly designed pixel-scale metasurface lenses — flat surfaces that use nanostructures to manipulate light — can be used to make imaging sensors that are roughly three times more sensitive than those used today.

16 Dec 2021

Using Lasers to Sculpt the Properties of Materials

Imagine windows that can easily transform into mirrors, or super high-speed computers that run not on electrons but light.

9 Dec 2021

LAMpAS has Reached Target Parameters of Kilowatt-Class Ultrafast Laser

The EU-funded LAMpAS project has announced that the target parameters of its kilowatt-class ultrafast laser have been reached.

7 Dec 2021

Development and Latest Progress of Femtosecond Laser Precision Micro/Nano-Engineering

Femtosecond laser precision engineering has been applied in industries for device micro/nano-fabrication due to its unique advantages of being a dry and noncontact process, coupled with the availability of reliable light sources and affordable system cost.

6 Dec 2021

Scientists Edge Closer to Probe that Would Inspect Atherosclerotic Plaques by Forcing Molecules to Sound Their Presence

Skoltech researchers and their colleagues have come one step closer to a working optoacoustic endoscopic probe — a device that could slip inside a blood vessel and analyze atherosclerotic plaques by shining laser light on them to make them wobble like a loudspeaker membrane and betray their chemical composition with an ultrasound signature.

2 Dec 2021

Two-Step Absorption Process Makes More Compact 3D Laser Printers

Lasers in conventional laser printers for paper printouts are very small. 3D laser printers for 3-dimensional microstructures and nanostructures, by contrast, have required big and expensive laser systems so far.

1 Dec 2021

Notch Filters for Specific Wavelengths

Notch filters are band blocking filters. They are used to suppress strong laser beams in Raman laser spectroscopy and other applications. They may also be employed to protect eyesight or used as attachable filters for cameras.

From Laser Components (UK) Ltd. 29 Nov 2021

Detection Technology Unveils X-ACE to Set a New Industry Standard in Value and Mainstream Medical CT Imaging

Detection Technology, a global leader in X-ray detector solutions, today unveiled the industry’s first off-the-shelf detector series optimized for value and mainstream medical CT (computed tomography) imaging needs.

From Detection Technology, Inc. 25 Nov 2021

Multidrug-Resistant Bacteria and Bacterial Spores can be Killed by Ultrashort-Pulse Lasers

Life-threatening bacteria are becoming ever more resistant to antibiotics, making the search for alternatives to antibiotics an increasingly urgent challenge. For certain applications, one alternative may be a special type of laser.

24 Nov 2021