Alcohol Helps Astronomers Date Stars
LEIDEN, Netherlands -- Many of us have probably harbored fantasies of dating a star, perhaps at...
Caged Atoms Offer Big Possibilities
OAK RIDGE, Tenn. -- A technique that traps single atoms for study at room temperature may find...
Wafer Detects Harmful Bacteria
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. -- A multidisciplinary team at Purdue University is developing a method for...
Moonstruck: Caught on Video
GRANADA, Spain -- It's difficult to catch a falling star, and even harder to photograph one,...
US Air Force Develops All-Gas Chemical Laser
The Air Force Research Laboratory Directed Energy Directorate at Kirtland Air Force Base in New...
Corning Ships Mirror Blank to Chilean Observatory
Corning Inc. of Corning, N.Y., has announced that it has shipped the 4.3-m primary mirror blank to...
Cluster Carries Los Alamos Spectrometers
The second pair of satellites in the European Space Agency's Cluster II mission were successfully...
Instrument Characterizes Colloids
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Researchers at Los Alamos National Laboratory have developed a system that...
Corning Updates Bandwidth Specification
Corning Inc. of Corning, N.Y., has announced that it will use the restricted mode launch bandwidth...
Chromophore Suited to Data Storage
Researchers from the University of Cincinnati and the Air Force Research Laboratory at...
Lasers Could Improve Drilling Safety
READING, UK -- If you shake a bottle of cola and open it, you get a sug-ary mess. If you open a...
Electron Pairs 'Dance' in Laser Field
FREIBURG, Germany -- Researchers have again advanced our understanding of laser ionization with the...
Polymers Control Energy Transfer
LOS ANGELES -- Chemists at the University of California have demonstrated a means to control energy...
Faster Than Light? Well …
PRINCETON, N.J. -- The dreams of warp drive and faster-than-light communications will have to...
Fibers Talk, Lock, Make High-Brightness Laser
WATERFORD, Conn. -- For at least 30 years, researchers have attempted to combine the light from...
DoE Labs Demonstrate Free-Electron Laser
Scientists from the US Department of Energy's (DoE) Brookhaven National Laboratory in Upton, N.Y.,...
LaserChip Validation Completed
Spectra Science Corp. of Providence, R.I., and Glaxo Wellcome Inc. of Research Triangle Park, N.C.,...
Pixel Pyramids May Improve LEDs
A team from the University of California in Los Angeles believes that a structure of pyramid-shaped...
Mid-IR Detector Operates at Room Temperature
A PIN photodiode under development in France at Thomson-CSF of Orsay and École Polytechnique...
Sputtering Promises Lower Temperatures, High Speed
If you are truly excited by optical production equipment, the biannual Optatec trade shows are the...
1.3-µm VCSEL Produced for Telecommunications
Nova Crystals Inc., located in San Jose, Calif., has developed a 1-mW, 1.3-µm vertical-cavity...
Waveguide Reveals Singularities
ENSCHEDE, Netherlands -- The optical equivalent of scanning tunneling electron microscopy promises...
Researchers Investigate Laser Welding of Aluminum
COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Researchers are perfecting the laser welding of aluminum alloys to overcome a...