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Demystifying USP Lasers

PETALUMA, Calif., Feb. 4, 2008 -- If Barry Schuler has his way, we're on the cusp of a photon revolution. No stranger to skepticism or speculation, the former AOL executive once described his proudest accomplishment as "confounding the technology elite of Silicon Valley, who thought AOL was doomed because it dumbed down the Internet.” (Business Week, July 2001) "It's not the technology itself,” he was quoted as saying. “It's the application of technology that's important." That year, he had just become chairman and CEO of AOL's interactive services unit after the company merged with Time Warner. He stands by that...Read full article

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    Published: February 2008
    Glossary
    nano
    An SI prefix meaning one billionth (10-9). Nano can also be used to indicate the study of atoms, molecules and other structures and particles on the nanometer scale. Nano-optics (also referred to as nanophotonics), for example, is the study of how light and light-matter interactions behave on the nanometer scale. See nanophotonics.
    photonics
    The technology of generating and harnessing light and other forms of radiant energy whose quantum unit is the photon. The science includes light emission, transmission, deflection, amplification and detection by optical components and instruments, lasers and other light sources, fiber optics, electro-optical instrumentation, related hardware and electronics, and sophisticated systems. The range of applications of photonics extends from energy generation to detection to communications and...
    ultrashort-pulse laser
    A laser capable of generating light pulses that last only a few femtoseconds. This can be achieved by nonlinear filtering to increase bandwidth and compress the pulse or by passive mode-locking or synchronous pumping in conjunction with pulse-shaping techniques.
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