It is a painful reality that nations must carefully regulate the export and import of certain “dual-use” technologies that could be used as weapons of war.
Speaking to attendees at the recent Photonics Europe meeting in Strasbourg, France, Ronand Burgess of the European Commission’s Photonics Unit said that photonics in Europe grew...
Scientists and engineers across Europe have joined forces in a unique collaborative effort to develop a new generation of high-brightness lasers that will transform the fields...
Planar-lightwave-circuit supplier for the fiber-to-the-home (FTTH), metro, and long-haul telecommunication markets, Enablence Technologies (Ottawa, ON, Canada) signed a definitive...
Fujifilm Dimatix (Santa Clara, CA), supplier of drop-on-demand inkjet printheads for industrial applications, announced that its cartridge-based Dimatix Materials Printer was ...
The Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching is the highest recognition that a mathematics or science teacher can receive for outstanding teaching...
Coherent (Santa Clara, CA) entered into a definitive agreement to sell certain assets of Coherent’s Auburn Optics manufacturing operation to Research Electro-Optics (Boulder, ...
While silicon and other photovoltaic solar cells get much press and are widely used, another lesser-known approach to solar-cell technology holds great promise, in particular ...
The ability to measure the gases that contribute to global warming, such as methane (CH4), carbon dioxide (CO2), chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), and nitrous oxide (N2O), is important...
Invisibility cloaking of matter on the scale of the Romulans and Harry Potter is still firmly science fiction, but recent experiments have demonstrated optical metamaterials with...
Quantum dense coding allows a sender of digital information (Bob) to communicate a maximum of two bits of classical information to a receiver (Alice) by transmitting only a single...
A new noninvasive Raman-spectroscopy technique could enable the detection of even the most minute malignant tissues if applied to human use in surgical or endoscopy applications...
A research team at the Nonlinear Physics Centre of the Australian National University in Canberra, reports that it has produced the first nonlinear tunable metamaterial and, using...