Volume 44, Issue 2

In a stunning display of the power of a pulse amplification method called optical parametric chirped-pulse amplification (OPCPA), researchers have demonstrated sub-10 fs ultrabroadband...

Although many silicon photonic components have been developed toward the goal of on-chip optical networks, progress has largely been based on silicon-on-insulator components in...

Photonic-bandgap materials such as photonic crystals are important for their ability to manipulate photons.

It is fitting that the next step forward for optical frequency combs should occur at the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics.

Irnee D’Haenens (right), a physicist who assisted Ted Maiman (left) in making the first laser at Hughes Research Laboratory (Malibu, CA) in 1960, died Dec. 24, 2007; he was 73...

An interdisciplinary team from Purdue University has shown that a combination of laser technology and nanotechnology that it originally developed for medical imaging also has ...

Scandinavian motorists have a new tool for detecting dangerous road conditions. A laser-based road-monitoring system bounces light from the road to a detector and can sense when...

When John Ellis, president of Optics for Hire (Arlington, MA) read a New York Times story on a U.S. diplomat delivering flashlights to Africans in need, he knew he wanted to help...

Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT; Cambridge, MA) are patenting a microscope-compatible device that combines microfluidics and laser optics in a potentially...

As optical networks become more ubiquitous and data-transfer rates increase, there is one component that is ever more conspicuous by its absence—optical memory.