Lawrence Livermore Develops 13-kW Solid-State Laser
Researchers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, Calif., have delivered a...
LEDs Learn from Solar Cells
A silicon LED with a conversion efficiency 100 times better than current devices promises to enable...
Electrons Receive an Optical Kick
Precisely timed bursts of light may help to explain the basics of chemistry. A research team at the...
Hizbollah Cameras Watch Israel
Lebanon's Daily Star reported that Hizbollah has deployed dozens of surveillance cameras along the...
Oscillators Going Optical
OEwaves Inc. of Pasadena, Calif., has developed a high-frequency oscillator that the company hopes...
FEL Generates Second Harmonic
Researchers at the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility in Newport News, Va., have...
NASA Produces Fresnel Mold
The Space Optics Manufacturing and Technology Center at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in...
Fiber Network Enables Telesurgery
Surgeons using robotic systems at Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York have performed a...
Colorimetry Detects Beryllium
Beryllium, three times lighter than aluminum and six times stronger than steel, is an attractive...
Interfering Lasers Deliver Atoms
The promise of nanotechnology is leading researchers to search for control over smaller and smaller...
CARS Moving Beyond the Lab
New research promises to take a technique that combines Raman spectroscopy and multiphoton...
100-km Negative-Dispersion Fiber Carries 10 Gb/s
To satisfy consumer demand for higher bandwidth in metropolitan-area networks, wavelength division...
Brittle Star Features Calcite Lenses
It has five arms and thousands of eyes, wears an armored plate and has been around for 500 million...
Spectra for Quasars Pinpoint the Birth of Light
Using the spectra from distant quasars taken by a 10-m telescope at W.M. Keck Observatory atop...
Liquid Crystal, Dye Yield Solar Cells
A team from Cambridge University and Cambridge Display Technology Ltd. of Cambridge, UK, and from...
XOR: A Logical Choice for All-Optical Networks
A new label-swapping technique promises faster data networks, increasing the commercial potential...
Waveguides Write Themselves
A team at Toyota Central Research and Development Laboratories Inc. in Nagakute, Japan, has...
Camera System Tracks in 360
An automated omnidirectional tracking system developed by researchers at Lehigh University in...
Fiber Network Enables Telesurgery
Surgeons using robotic systems at Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York have performed a...
IR Wireless Signals High Bandwidth at Low Power
Wireless infrared local-area networking is a flexible and economical alternative to hardwired...
Single-Beam Setup Simplifies Holography
Holographic memory storage is no longer the stuff of science fiction but the target of scientific...
Sensor Array, Light Source or Both?
Chemists are not content with detecting one or two chemical species within a sample. They prefer,...
System Enables Remote Writing
If researchers at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh have their way, tomorrow's desktop won't...
Photocatalysis Produces H2
Researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge have demonstrated that light can...
Microscope Offers Portable Raman
Raman imaging just got a little easier. For the past couple of years, the department of chemistry...