Technology World | March 2007
From green laser pointers to sophisticated surgical instruments, frequency-doubled solid-state lasers have found countless successful applications...
Scientists at École Polytechnique de Montréal have demonstrated what they believe is the first biodegradable microstructured (holey) optical fiber...
University of Texas at Austin researchers Bryan J. Kaehr and Jason B. Shear have developed a way to rapidly generate microscale patterns in...
There’s more to bad weather than just wind and rain. When flares or coronal mass ejections occur on the surface of the sun, ensuing blasts of...
When future rovers go to Mars or other planets, equipping them with instruments capable of deep-UV Raman spectroscopy will give them a better chance...
Lasers emitting in the two-micron spectral region have important applications in medicine, spectroscopy and military countermeasures. Traditionally,...