New Laser Could Be Alternative to Laser Diode
MILAN, Italy -- Professor Cesare Svelto of the Polytechnic Institute of Milan has developed a...
Bell Labs Breaks the 1-km Barrier
Researchers at Bell Laboratories in Holmdel, N.J., have demonstrated serial transmission at 10 Gb/s...
Duke University's Free-Electron Laser Breaks 200-nm Wavelength Barrier
The Russian-built OK-4 free-electron laser at Duke University in Durham, N.C., emitted 5 mW of...
Diode Laser Emits in the Mid-IR at Room Temperature
The Naval Research Laboratory in Washington has produced a laser diode that displays pulsed...
Physicists Use Lasers to Achieve Fermi Degeneracy
It was almost five years ago that Eric A. Cornell and Carl E. Wieman achieved Bose-Einstein...
This Is Your Garden-Variety Laser
MORIOKA, Japan -- Next time you go shopping for a lasing medium, forget about rubies or sapphires...
Proton Radiography Images Implosion
A demonstration at the Los Alamos National Laboratory's Neutron Science Center in Los Alamos, N.M.,...
Lidar Satellite Will Analyze Forests
GAITHERSBURG, Md. -- In September 2000, the Vegetation Canopy Lidar satellite is scheduled for...
Researchers Develop Electro-Optic Lightning Detector
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. -- Lightning strikes during space launch preparation can be very dangerous....
Luminescence Aids Detection of Toxic Leaks
ARGONNE, Ill. -- As a legacy to the uranium enrichment process that has provided nuclear reactor...
Military Laser Gets Ready for Industry
URBANA, Ill. -- The chemical oxygen-iodine laser technology that is the basis of the US Air Force's...
Lasers Quiet Mirrors
Researchers at the École Normale Supérieure and Université Pierre et Marie...
Nobel Prize Recognizes Ultrafast Revolution
STOCKHOLM, Sweden -- The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has awarded the 1999 Nobel Prize in...
New Laser Could Be Alternative to Laser Diode
LAPPEENRANTA, Finland -- The use of lasers for materials processing is on the rise in Nordic...
Nortel Has 6.4-Tb/s Optical Platform
Nortel Networks Corp. of Paignton, UK, presented a scalable 40- to 80-Gb/s optical Internet...
Proteins Key to Plants' Response to Light and Shade
An international research team announced that it has identified the protein dynamics that control...
Fiber Amplifier Pumps Reach 200-mW Level
Scientists announced in the Sept. 20 issue of Applied Optics that they have fabricated 200-mW,...
Laser System Inspects Space Plane
Lockheed Martin's Tactical Aircraft Systems in Fort Worth, Texas, has applied its LaserUT...
New Spectroscopy Technique Detects Trace Samples
GAITHERSBURG, Md. -- A new approach to surface spectroscopy has proved 100 times more sensitive...
Team Produces Tunable Solid-State Blue Laser
In a collaboration between the City University of Hong Kong and Shandong University, both in China,...
Two-in-One Laser
MURRAY HILL, N.J. -- Researchers at Bell Laboratories described in the Oct. 22 issue of Science a...