A family of 888 nm laser modules from QPC includes the Ultra-50, with output from 35 to 50 W, the Ultra-100, with output from 85 to 100 W, and the Ultra-5000, with output from...
In this month’s Annual Technology Review article, Senior Editor John Wallace leads us on a fascinating tour of photonics developments that have taken place over the past year....
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Photonics industry expert Sarah Diggs has joined our community with her new blog about the technical skills needed by engineers, researchers, and technicians in photonics.
A cooperative site hosted by Florida State University, “Molecular Expressions,” contains a myriad of photos in its galleries and explores the world of optics and microscopy with...
New research results appear to enhance the optoelectronic properties of organic semiconductors known as conjugated organic oligomers and polymers, and may eventually extend their...
Lasers at terawatt (1012 W) powers have potential for all kinds of interesting new physics, but the systems are bulky, inefficient, and plagued by the difficulty of managing the...
Ultrasmooth mirrors could enable a new kind of microscope: a scanning helium-atom microscope that could use helium (He) particles as nondestructive probes to image nanometer-scale...
Although critical-angle refractometry techniques are well-established for measuring the refractive index of homogeneous transparent materials with an uncertainty on the order ...
Although emission from direct-bandgap, semiconducting, current-injected carbon nanotubes is weak, spectrally broad, diffuse, and nondirectional in nature, researchers at the IBM...
The goal of the U.S. National Ignition Facility at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, due for completion in March 2009, the Laser MegaJoule , and the European High-Power ...
It was a year in which metamaterials began to take shape as optics, 80-attosecond pulses probed intra-atom electronic properties, optical interconnects benefited the digital revolution...
Named after the famous British astronomer Sir George Airy, the Airy beam does not diffract or spread and can actually bend or curve as it propagates; in 2007, Airy light beams...
The synthesis of uniform white light from separate red, blue, and green LEDs gets more difficult as the area to be illuminated gets smaller and more akin to the size of the LEDs...
Scientists at Clemson University (Clemson, SC) have figured out how to fabricate a silicon (Si)-core, glass-clad optical fiber using a conventional fiber-draw process.
Quantum optical coherence tomography (OCT) has, for the first time, been shown to be a viable biological imaging technique, says M. Boshra Nasr, a postdoctoral researcher in the...
A new type of photodetector overcomes the limitations of avalanche photodiode technology by offering amplitude and event detection, wide dynamic range, and flat spectral response...
In a holographic planar concentrator, holographic film diffracts usable frequencies of sunlight, and guides that energy toward strips of solar cells, resulting in a solar module...