Vulcan to Produce Petawatt Pulses
The Nd:glass Vulcan laser at Rutherford Appleton Laboratory near Oxford, UK, was scheduled to...
TV/CCD Combination Measures Wavefronts
Using a television monitor and a CCD camera, researchers at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid...
Optical Trapping Expands to 3-D
Since the mid-80s, optical tweezers have helped study the physics behind a myriad of microscopic...
Shake-and-Bake Technique Builds Displays
Researchers at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis and at Harvard University in Cambridge,...
Filter Proposed for Quantum Network
Researchers at Hokkaido University in Sapporo, Japan, have developed a scheme for an optical filter...
Is There a Perfect Lens?
According to researchers at the University of Texas at Austin and at Consejo Superior de...
MIT Develops Flexible Dielectric Fibers
Fashion and photonics may seem an unlikely combination to inspire a product from the laboratories...
'Lasetron' Promises Ultrafast Pulses, Strong Magnetic Fields
Laser light could help scientists observe the mysterious strong-force reactions responsible for...
Deposition Controls Refractive Index
Japanese researchers at Osaka University in Suita and the Institute for Laser Technology in Osaka...
Holey Fiber Laser Produces 10 mW
A research team at Max Born Institut für Nichtlineare Optik und Kurzzeitspektroskopie in Berlin has...
Liquid Polymer Provides Gain for Optical Amplifier
At St. Andrews University in the UK, research-ers have constructed a broadband optical amplifier...
Semiconductor Laser Emits 67-µm Radiation
A quantum-cascade laser developed by researchers in Italy and the UK may herald the shape of things...
Lawrence Livermore Builds 28-km Air-Optic Link
Scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, Calif., have successfully...
IR Two-Photon Process Creates Acids
Two-photon absorption techniques show promise for such applications as microfabrication. But...