Laser News

RSS

UCF Optics Researchers Make Military Rescue Missions, Teamwork More Effective

Aiming to help the military better coordinate rescues of missing aid workers and other complex missions, researchers at the University of Central Florida's Institute for Simulation and Training will study how hastily assembled teams process information and solve problems.

8 Jul 2007

Scientists Perform Atomic Spectroscopy with Integrated Optics on a Chip for First Time

Researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, have performed atomic spectroscopy with integrated optics on a chip for the first time, guiding a beam of light through a rubidium vapor cell integrated into a semiconductor chip.

8 Jul 2007

World's First Electrically Powered Hybrid Silicon Laser Built Using Standard Silicon Manufacturing Processes

Researchers from the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) and Intel Corporation have built the world's first electrically powered Hybrid Silicon Laser using standard silicon manufacturing processes.

8 Jul 2007

Super Stable Fiber-Optic Network

A super stable fiber-optic network that can be tuned across a range of visible and near-infrared frequencies while synchronizing the oscillations of light waves from different sources has been demonstrated at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).

8 Jul 2007

New Form of Transistor and a New Form of Laser at Once

The transistor laser invented by scientists at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has now been found to possess fundamental non-linear characteristics that are new to a transistor and permit its use as a dual-input, dual-output, high-frequency signal processor.

8 Jul 2007

Fastest Measurements Ever of Molecular Dynamics

In the last decades there has been a revolution in measuring time-dependent molecular motion, thanks to improvements in laser technology.

8 Jul 2007

New Method for Using Laser Beams to Accelerate Ions

Scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratory, in collaboration with researchers from the University of Nevada, Reno, Ludwig-Maximilian-University in Germany, and the Max-Planck-Institute for Quantum Optics in Germany, have developed a new method for using a laser beam to accelerate ions.

8 Jul 2007