A Smaller, Cheaper Laser Achieves High Power
ASHKELON, Israel -- The trouble with high-power lasers is their size and cost. A 1000-W laser is...
Chirality Is Electronically Switchable
NEW YORK -- A copper-based molecule with electronically switchable optical properties promises...
Cornell Selected to Lead Mars Mission
NASA has chosen Cornell University of Ithaca, N.Y., to provide the instrumentation and to lead the...
Scattered Light Finds Defects in Wires
MADRID, Spain -- Physicists in Spain and Argentina have developed a laser-based system designed to...
Dusty Lab May Revolutionize LEDs
PRINCETON, N.J. -- You may think that your cleanroom should be clean, but a serendipitous bit of...
What's in that Hamburger?
HONG KONG -- Hamburger lovers beware! The next meat patty you eat may not be what you think it is....
Holography Offers New Opportunities
SAN JOSE, Calif. -- A picture may be worth a thousand words, but a hologram is worth many more....
Scattering May Extend Laser Cooling
STANFORD, Calif. -- Laser cooling, also known as optical molasses, has found numerous scientific...
Laser-Powered Chips Sample DNA
MONMOUTH JUNCTION, N.J. -- A technology using light-activated microtransponders to achieve...
Head Lice Fear the Dance Floor
NEW HAVEN, Conn. -- To all you lice boning up on your disco moves: Don't count on shaking your...
Lucent Developing Plastic Fiber
Lucent Technologies Inc. of Murray Hill, N.J., has announced plans to develop graded-index plastic...
Microchip Laser Aims at Argon-Ions
ORLANDO, Fla. -- A microchip laser developed as a compact excitation source for Raman spectroscopy...
Optical Bench Readied for NASA
Composite Optics Inc. of San Diego has delivered the optical bench for NASA's tropospheric emission...
Low-Cost Night-Vision System Proposed for Home Use
In a study published in the June issue of Optical Engineering, scientists at National Chiao Tung...
Pill-Size Camera Is Easy to Swallow
YOKNEAM, Israel -- The concept may be a bit hard to swallow, but the camera isn't. Given Imaging...
Lasers Help Power Companies Find Good Vibrations
ATLANTA -- Electric power companies may soon have a faster, safer and more effi-cient means for...
Spanish Physicists Focus on Fuzz
TERRASSA, Spain -- Fuzzballs on sweaters and other garments are an inescapable fact of life. They...
US Air Force Studies Fiber Lasers
Scientists at the US Air Force Research Laboratory at Kirtland Air Force Base, N.M., are hoping to...
X-Ray Scattering Reveals Electronic Properties
STANFORD, Calif. -- An x-ray technique for studying the fundamental properties of matter could help...