Alcatel Breaks 5-Tb/s Transmission
Alcatel of Paris has demonstrated 5.12-Tb/s transmission over 300 km of its TeraLight optical...
Dispersion Increases Fiber Capacity
HOLMDEL, N.J. -- A researcher at Lucent Technologies Inc.'s Bell Labs has taken a working solution...
Laser Destroys Multiple Rockets
TRW Inc.'s Space & Electronics Group of Redondo Beach, Calif., has reported that the Tacti-cal...
Dielectric Waveguide Betters Fiber
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- Building on its wide-bandwidth, wide-angle, high-reflectivity dielectric...
Lidar to Track Earth Atmosphere
BALTIMORE -- Within the next five to seven years, NASA scientists and engineers from Johns Hopkins...
Camera's Exposures Always Correct
NEW YORK -- The human eyeball can handle an enormous range of brightness levels. It can look at a...
Flexible Laser Produced
MUNICH, Germany -- Scientists from Ludwig Maximilians Universi-tät, the Fraunhofer Institut...
Holography Monitors Microscopic Marine Life
ABERDEEN, UK -- Scientists estimate that 80 percent of the oxygen in the atmosphere is produced by...
Lithographers Suggest Solutions to Smaller Features
Semiconductor manufacturers should focus on the commercialization of extreme-ultraviolet and...
Measuring the Ultrasmall
HAMBURG, Germany -- Without measurement standards, our descriptions of the physical world would...
MEMS-Based Gas Sensor Under Development
Ion Optics Inc. of Waltham, Mass., has announced that it is developing a chip-based IR gas sensor...
Microdisc LEDs Boast Higher Efficiencies
Physicists at Kansas State University in Manhattan have developed LEDs with a novel architecture...
Microstepping Improves Ronchigrams
A team from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya in Terrassa, Spain, has developed a...
Simple Sensor Detects Nerve Gas
SAN DIEGO -- A laser-based nerve gas sensor under development illustrates that we should not...
Fiber Probe Enhances Plasma Spectroscopy
MUNICH, Germany -- Monitoring the exhaust plumes from industrial activities such as power...
Laser Sensors Measure Force
KASSEL, Germany -- When it comes to measuring force, the more precise the measurement, the better....
Researchers Grow Single-Crystal, 1.55µm VCSELs
Researchers at the University of California in Santa Barbara have produced 1.55-µm...
High-Speed Video Exposes Snapping Shrimp
Scientists from the University of Twente in Enschede, the Netherlands, and their colleagues in...
Photonics Finds Solvents in Water
ATHENS, Ohio -- With the list of Superfund sites growing almost daily, the need for a reliable...
Excimer Laser Processes Ceramic Spinnerettes
MÜNSTER, Germany -- A new procedure that employs an excimer laser emitting at 248 nm shows...
Spooky Photons May Beat Diffraction
PASADENA, Calif. -- Light is fundamentally a quantum mechanical entity, but most of today's...
Microscopy Probes Ultrafast Dynamics
GÖTTINGEN, Germany -- Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry have...
UV VCSEL Produced
Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, N.M., and Brown University in...
Web-footed Grating Reduces Loss
IBARAKI, Japan -- A novel arrayed-waveguide grating developed at NTT Photonics Laboratories...
X-Ray Technique Probes Thin-Film Layers
Surface charge on poorly conducting thin films, a result of the emission of photoelectrons, had...