US Air Force Tests Beam-Control System
Researchers from the Directed Energy Directorate of the US Air Force Research Laboratory at...
Cold War Images Aid Study of Antarctica
The US National Imagery and Mapping Agency has released images taken of Antarctica's McMurdo Dry...
Technique Aids Testing of Aspheres
SINGAPORE -- Deep aspherical surfaces may become easier to measure, thanks to a novel testing...
Blue Laser Diodes Used in Spectroscopy
A group at Bonn University in Germany has employed a laser spectrometer based on the InGaN blue...
Interplanetary Dust Is Deep Space Matter
The infrared spectra of interplanetary dust collected in the stratosphere indicate that the...
Researchers Simulate Fly's Vision
PASADENA, Calif. -- Insect biologists studying the visual capabilities of flies may find their...
Sensor Fusion Checks Weld Quality
COLUMBUS, Ohio -- When it comes to inspecting high-power laser welding, three sensors are better...
IR Wavelengths Check Putting Greens
LINCOLN, Neb. -- Golfers are never short of excuses when it comes to lackluster play, but blaming...
Ion Patterning Yields Distributed Feedback Lasers
A research team from the Universität Würzburg in Germany and the Alcatel Corporate...
Researchers Demonstrate Laser Isotope Separation
Researchers from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor have developed an efficient method of...
Laser-Cooling Measures Quantum-Mechanical
A team of researchers at Stanford University in California have confirmed that the value of g,...
Maskless Lithography Brings Gene Chips to Labs
Scientists at the University of Wisconsin in Madison have developed an etching process for gene...
Lasers Benefit Data Storage, Near-Field Optics
According to researchers from Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, N.J., lasers with a very small...
Photonic Bandgap Glass Leads to Novel Optoelectronics
Researchers at the US Naval Research Laboratory in Washington reported that they have fabricated...
Illuminati Ponder the Future of Light
BOSTON -- More than 200 people convened at Boston University recently to get a perspective on the...
Plutonium Smugglers Beware
In an uncertain world, how do you make sure that weapons-grade plutonium is not smuggled across...
Spectroscopy Exposes Molecular Dynamics
Researchers at the National Research Council's Steacie Institute for Molecular Sciences have...
Synchrotron Improves Calibrations
The upgraded synchrotron ultraviolet radiation facility, known as Surf III, at the National...
Laser Technique Allows Noiseless Image Amplification
EVANSTON, Ill. -- Investigators at Northwestern University have demonstrated that it is possible to...
In Trace Gas Measurement, Bigger Is Not Better
Chemists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in Gaithersburg, Md., have...
Trio Closes In on Remote Chemical Sensor Project
A collaboration among Sandia National Laboratories, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in...
Optical Vortices May Aid Free-Space Communication
HAIFA, Israel -- Researchers at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology discovered that VCSELs...
Virtual Waveguide Offers a Real Optical Switch
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. -- Waveguides used as optical switches do not lend themselves easily to...