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Lasing System that Produces “Good Vibrations”

Researchers designed and created a lasing system already proficient in producing tiny packets of light known as photons into a tunable system.

27 Jul 2018

Optical Metamixer Produces Light in Eleven Separate Colors from Two IR Beams

An optical frequency “metamixer” capable of changing two input laser pulses into output light waves in eleven separate colors, from the UV to the near-IR has been demonstrated by a team of scientists from the Sandia National Laboratories, USA, and Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany.

10 Jul 2018

Novel Laser Communications Transceiver to Expand Space-to-Ground Communication

A new research project formed recently by a partnership between the Georgia Institute of Technology and satellite communications provider Xenesis could help free up the bottleneck that presently restricts the transmission of data from Earth-orbiting satellites to ground stations.

26 Jun 2018

New Silicon Laser Uses Sound Waves to Amplify Light

Researchers from Yale have developed an innovative silicon laser that amplifies light using sound waves.

11 Jun 2018

Cobolt Bolero™ 640 nm

Cobolt AB, a part of HÜBNER Photonics, proudly highlights the addition of a new wavelength of 640 nm to the Cobolt 05-01 Series of single frequency lasers. With up to 500 mW and a linewidth of <1 MHz, the Cobolt Boler...

From HÜBNER Photonics GmbH 8 Jun 2018

“Smart Mirror” Laser Power Meter for Point-of-Use, High-Accuracy Laser Monitoring

At present, high-power lasers are broadly applied in laser welding and additive manufacturing systems for precision welding and cutting of metal, producing all types of metal parts for automotive industries, aerospace applications, medical devices, and others.

30 May 2018

Olympus Honored by Laser Focus World 2018 Innovators Awards Program

Olympus announced today its LEXT® OLS5000 3D laser confocal scanning microscope was recognized by the judges of the annual Laser Focus World Innovators Awards program. The judging panel consisted of senior industry exper...

21 May 2018

Technique Employs Tunnel Ionization for Temporal Characterization of Laser Pulse Waveform

Scientists at the Center for Relativistic Laser Science, within the Institute for Basic Science (IBS), have devised a novel technique to determine the shape of laser pulses in ambient air.

21 May 2018

X-Ray Laser Allows Researchers to View the Motion of Water Molecules in Real Time

Water can be more complex than it appears - large numbers of water molecules form a highly complex network of hydrogen bonds. Now, researchers have examined water molecule movements in liquid water that happen in less than 100 millionths of a billionth of a second, or femtoseconds.

21 May 2018

Technique Allows Researchers to Peer Through Organic Materials

Thanks to a new technique for producing fast X-rays, the fleeting actions of electrons in organic materials will be a lot easier to examine. The method means complex measurements of fast reactions will currently be possible in physics labs globally.

21 May 2018