Laser Prototyping Advancing to Factory Floor
BETHLEHEM, Pa. -- Researcher John DuPont, an assistant professor of materials science and...
Smart Cameras Aim Themselves
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign are borrowing...
Scientists Investigate Light-Emitting Bubbles
LOS ANGELES -- What do sound waves, water bubbles and photons have in common? They are the primary...
Ceramic Laser Produces 72 W
A team at the University of Electro-communications and Konoshima Chemical Co. Ltd. in Tokyo and at...
All-Optical Technique Creates Condensate
Researchers at Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta have developed an all-optical method to...
New on DVD: Photonic Transistors
TSUKUBA, Japan -- The ability of one electrical current or field to amplify another underlies the...
Interlayers Ease Mismatch Stress
Efficient infrared and red vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers will require high-quality...
Elastic Material Acts as Laser
A team at the University of Freiburg in Germany and Kent State University in Kent, Ohio, has...
X-Rays Expose Nonthermal Melting
PALAISEAU, France -- Using time-resolved x-ray spectroscopy, researchers at Laboratoire d'Optique...
Router Promises Faster Switching
DAVIS, Calif. -- An all-optical data network scheduled to be built later this year at the...
Gravity-Wave Detector Comes Online
TOKYO -- Despite the best attempts of researchers, conclusive proof of the existence of...
Energetic Helium Yields Superatoms
PARIS -- First realized in the lab during the last decade, Bose-Einstein condensates have offered...
Crystal Finds a Home in Lasers
RZBURG, Germany -- Researchers at the University of Würzburg have employed a two-dimensional...
Fiber Sensor Looks for Leaks
A fiber optic gas sensor under development at Boeing Co. of Seattle and at Intelligent Optical...
Liquid Lenses Make Better Beams
AMES, Iowa -- To micromachine transistors, integrated chips and similar miniature devices requires...
Micromachined Laser Offers Tunability
SINGAPORE -- In the hope of adding flexibility to optical communications networks, researchers at...
Nanotubes Offer New Light
LAUSANNE, Switzerland -- It is not often that researchers reinvent the lightbulb. Scientists at...
OPO Displays 8-kHz Linewidth
A research group at the University of Konstanz in Germany has generated infrared light with 8-kHz...
Corning Glass Performs Well in Study
A durability study performed by International Sematech Inc. of Austin, Texas, has found that...
Laser Welding Project Planned
Fraunhofer USA's Center for Laser Technology in Plymouth, Mich., has announced an initiative to...
Corral Sculpts Surface States
TOULOUSE, France -- While pursuing an understanding of the factors influencing the photonic local...
Sony Tests Dual-Wavelength Laser
KANAGAWA, Japan -- If your kids are whiling away their summer break playing games on a Sony...
Liquid Crystal Adaptive Optics Speed Up
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Conventional piezo technology, on which most adaptive optic arrays rely, tends...
Vision Systems Stamp Out Bushfires
MELBOURNE, Australia -- The threat of bushfires looms large in southern Australia. An airborne...
Film Switches from Mirror to Window
BERKELEY, Calif. -- Windows that switch between transmissive and reflective states could...
Nanowires Sniff Out TNT
With millions of unexploded land mines and bombs left scattered around the world from various...
Photoacoustics Detects Water in Oil
Water contamination in lubrication and hydraulic oils is one of the primary causes of destructive...