Zia Delivers Quantum Dot Samples
Zia Laser Inc., a start-up optics company founded a year ago by faculty and former students of the...
Single-Chip LED Emits White Light
Scientists in Taiwan have developed a white LED that promises to simplify the manufacture of these...
Fiber Optics Upgrades Cryptography
An autocompensating quantum cryptography technique based upon manipulating a pulse of light split...
Polarization Control Yields Ultrashort Raman Radiation Pulses
In many experimental setups, stimulated Raman scattering is an attractive method for laser...
VUV Laser Paves the Way for X-Ray Free-Electron Laser
After successfully constructing a self-amplification spontaneous-emission, free-electron laser that...
Laser Ultrasound Evaluates Paper
One of the biggest challenges for the paper-making industry is testing the strength and flexibility...
Metal Migration Leads to Breakdown of Organic LEDs
Using secondary ion mass spectrometry, researchers at the Institute of Materials Research and...
Ink-Jet Simplifies Organic LED Design
Researchers at the University of Arizona in Tucson have developed an ink-jet printing method for...
Sensor Could ID Complex Mixtures
According to scientists at the US Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory in Ames, Iowa,...
Hydrogels Form Tunable Photonic Crystals
Using thermoresponsive hydrogel nanoparticles, researchers at Georgia Institute of Technology in...
Monomeric Thin-Film Layers Hold Polar Order
Electro-optic modulators along fiber optic lines commonly use LiNbO3 or GaAs waveguides that are...
Grooves Align Fiber and Crystal
Researchers in upstate New York have developed a technique for attaching an optical fiber to a...
Water/Propanol Solvent Makes 'Green' Lasers
The volatility, flammability and other environmental hazards posed by solvents used in dye lasers,...
Film Integration Steps Closer to Flat Panel Application
Three-color integration of rare-earth-doped GaN thin films may now be possible for use in flat...
Microstructures Emit Coherent IR Radiation
Thermal sources, such as a blackbody or the incandescent filament in a lightbulb, typically produce...
VCSELs Pump Photonic Crystal Defect Lasers
The potential for low-threshold pump power is one reason why photonic crystal de-fect lasers show...
Crystals Promise New Optical Materials
Colloidal particles interest scientists because, although the particles are much larger than...