Feature Articles | June 2006
With more and more applications requiring laser beams to be aimed at distant targets, such as for line-of-sight communications,...
Modern communications systems must deal with huge amounts of data at ever-increasing speeds. In doing so, they try to use the best features of...
The world’s largest laser, the National Ignition Facility (NIF) at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, Calif., is 85 percent...
Angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy is the most direct way to observe the quantum-mechanical structure of electrons in solids and one of...
The vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser (VCSEL) has been the subject of intense research since its development in 1977.1 The standard device...
In the fast-paced and ever-changing microprocessor world, there is one undeniable truth: Photonic clocking will happen. It is just a question of...