Optical Comb Offers Laser Reference
BOULDER, Colo. -- The gold standard of time or frequency measurements at the heart of most atomic...
Diamond Enables Higher Laser Powers
LONDON -- Diamonds are a CO2 laser's best friend. As industrial laser applications require higher...
Disorderly Crystals Produce Laser Light
EVANSTON, Ill. -- Lasers are models of meticulous manufacturing processes and precision alignment....
In Space, No One Can Hear You
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. -- Space is a mess. Thousands of satellites race above us, as do thousands of bits...
Tunable IR Quantum Cascade Laser Demonstrated
A team at the Technical University of Vienna in Austria announced that it has constructed tunable...
Laser Tracks Movement of Bacteria
BALTIMORE -- A laser-tracking device has allowed researchers to follow bacterial movement with...
Low-Cost, High-Brightness LEDs Developed
Researchers at OSA GmbH of Berlin have developed LEDs that are up to five times brighter than...
New Liquid Crystal Promises Better Displays
EINDHOVEN, Netherlands -- Researchers at the Dutch Polymer Institute of Eindhoven University of...
Reaction Dynamics Control Molecular Imprints
TORONTO -- John C. Polanyi, professor of chemistry at the University of Toronto, has studied...
Novel Fiber Used in Amplifiers
Light amplifiers produced with a semiconductor-film-clad cylinder fiber developed at Syracuse...
Optical Patterning Structures Films
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories have developed an inexpensive...
3-D Spectroscopy Probes Molecules
URBANA, Ill. -- Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign are seeing what's...
Quantum Dots Suitable for Computing
SANTA BARBARA, Calif. -- A new study has found that quantum dots not only behave according to the...
Six-Band Sensor Put Through Its Paces
The Japan Defense Agency in Tokyo has completed a study of a multispectral sensor for airborne...
Thermal Lasers May Upset Offset Printing
BEDFORD, Mass. -- A printing press is the single largest capital investment of a newspaper or a...
Welding Suited to Shipbuilding
Current welding methods distort the structural steel plates used for shipbuilding, requiring...