Laser Ablation Shapes Precision Optics
Trying to precisely shape optics and achieve low wavefront distortion with conventional polishing...
Army Lab Uses Lasers to Detect Explosives
A team of researchers from the US Army Research Laboratory at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Md.,...
Fiber Optic Array Provides Real-Time Gel Analysis
LUND, Sweden -- Capillary electrophoresis has become a useful analytical tool, with laser-induced...
Infrared Spectromicroscopy Technology Identifies Bacteria That Eat Toxic Waste
Chemical and biological mechanisms had been suggested to explain the transformation of hexavalent...
Photonics Takes Bubble's Temperature
Researchers from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign reported in the Oct. 21 issue of...
One Chirping Laser Sings 1022 Frequencies on a Fiber
HOLMDEL, N.J. -- In standard communications math, 40 lasers + 40 modulators + one fiber...
Researchers Create Tunable Photonic Bandgap Crystal
Researchers around the world are investigating the properties of photonic crystals, the low-loss...
Device Varies Dispersion Compensation
At OECC '99 in Beijing, researchers from Avanex Corp. of Fremont, Calif., and Fujitsu Laboratories...
Ultrafast Laser Frees Prehistoric Fossils
LIVERMORE, Calif. -- A technique based on a scanning, ultrafast laser could soon prove invaluable...
Microsensors Tackle Hazardous Waste
CINCINNATI -- Researchers from the University of Cincinnati have developed a highly selective...
Heat Sink Offers Better Cooling
Microchannel heat sinks are commonly used to cool solid-state radar systems, diode lasers, and...
InP Extends Fiber Transmission
Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, N.J., has demonstrated 160-Gb/s, single-channel transmission over...
Technique Provides Transmission Insight
LONDON -- In 1998, Thomas Ebbesen of the NEC Research Institute in Princeton, N.J., discovered that...
Laser Simplifies Isotope Enrichment
Researchers at the University of Michigan have developed a simple and efficient means to produce...
Micromirrors Considered for Space
A team at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, N.M., is designing an infrared mirror array...
Online Mass Spectroscopy Method Makes Moves to IR
Two designs are leading to online, IR matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization mass spectroscopy...
IR Lasers Produce X-Ray Optics
DRESDEN, Germany -- X-rays go through almost any material without interaction, making them useful...
Optical Sensor Monitors pH
A team at Kyushu University in Fukuoka, Japan, says its laser-based pH sensor will be at least as...
Tunable Laser Devised for UV Resonance Raman Spectroscopy
Researchers from Princeton University in New Jersey and Chalmers University of Technology in...
Fiber Optic Sensor Measures Sea's Saltiness
Bathers can tell that the Dead Sea is extremely salty because all they can do in it is float....
Tabletop Laser Offers Alternative to Cyclotron
Researchers at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and Osaka University in Japan have reported...
Will Vinyl Replace Compact Discs?
Compact discs (CDs) literally scratch the surface of optical data storage. About 99.99 percent of a...
Detecting a Wrinkle in (Less) Time
AUSTIN, Texas -- When choosing an outfit to wear, one factor often prevails over others in the...