Passive Mode-Locking Is Achieved in Ytterbium Laser
Using an ion-implanted semiconductor saturable absorber mirror researchers at Australian National...
Widely Tunable Terahertz Generator Developed
Researchers at Riken's Photo Dynamics Research Center in Sendai, Japan, have developed a 0.7- to...
Two-Photon Absorption Enables Microfabrication
Two-photon absorption tech-niques that have proved beneficial to biological imaging are spilling...
Laser Ultrasound Tests Train Tracks
A train accident occurs in the US every 90 minutes, many of which are attributable to undetected...
Nanosecond Pulses Improve Laser Nitriding
Nanosecond excimer laser pulses yield better results than femtosecond pulses when laser nitriding...
Mid-IR VCSEL Operates at Room Temperature
An optically pumped vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser (VCSEL) that emits in the mid-IR at...
Team Moves Bose-Einstein Condensates 44 cm
A team from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge has moved gaseous Bose-Einstein...
Simpler Technique Measures Group Velocity Dispersion
Group velocity dispersion in optical fiber degrades the quality of transmitted data and limits the...
Laser Emits Broadband Radiation
Think laser, and odds are that you'll think monochromaticity. A quantum cascade laser developed at...
Coastal Imager Provides Linear Results
Tests performed by the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington have found that the Ocean Portable...
Doppler Lidar Maps High-Altitude Winds
According to Bob Dylan, the answer is blowing in the wind. That's certainly true for weather...
Photodetector Developed with 1.5-µm Sensitivity
Silicon-based photodetectors may benefit high-speed optical communications technologies because of...
CARS Limits Background Interference
Coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering (CARS) microscopy allows viewing of live biological samples...
Microscopy Techniques Image Organic LED Bubble Formation
Scientists from the Institute of Materials Research and Engineering in Singapore have examined the...
InAlGaN Quantum Wells Boost UV Emission
Using InAlGaN-based multiple quantum wells fabricated on SiC, Japanese researchers from Riken in...
Lasers Induce Transformation of Benzene
Multiple 70-mW continuous-wave laser sources have been used by researchers from the Università di...
Raman Imaging Probes Ancient Rocks
The microscopic structures discovered in the 3.5 billion-year-old rocks of Western Australia known...