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PODCAST: Interview with Michael Lebby, optics and photonics industry veteran

Feb. 11, 2025
Episode 38 of Following the Photons: A Photonics Podcast features Michael Lebby, whose decades-long career spans all levels of research and development, technology startups, sales...

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Ultrafast lasers drive nonlinear microscopy, environmental sensing, and quantum technologies

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Fiber-based ultrafast lasers—with pulses of one-tenth of one-trillionth of a second—continue to evolve, and near-term advances will expand their use to materials processing, nonlinear...
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FIGURE 1. Transforming bacteria into solar-powered lasers: we extract light-harvesting structures from bacteria (left), enhance them with proprietary specially engineered lasing units (middle), and place them into a lasing cavity (right) to create a new type of laser that runs directly on sunlight. The natural light-gathering rings (green/purple) of purple bacteria measure 60-nm across and achieve near-perfect efficiency in energy transfer of captured photons.
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Bio-inspired approach to harvest sunlight and convert it into laser beams in space

Feb. 7, 2025
A new way to power space missions piggybacks on bacteria's efficient light-harvesting abilities to create sunlight-powered lasers—and could enable power transmission between satellites...
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Gii: A pure, porous three-dimensional carbon nanostructure poised to revolutionize sensing.
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Breakthrough material for broadband photodetectors: Gii

Feb. 6, 2025
A sustainable carbon nanomaterial “Gii” is poised to revolutionize broadband photodetectors because it can absorb the full spectrum of light—from ultraviolet to infrared.

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Photonics Hot List: February 7, 2025

Feb. 7, 2025
In this episode: Soft microrobots infiltrate biomedical applications, SPIE Photonics West and business news roundup, and bright squeezed vacuum pulses generate high harmonics....
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Photonics Hot List: January 31, 2025

Jan. 31, 2025
In this episode: A biolasers approach highlights cancer cells, funding awards are set to boost technologies, and ultrabroadband UV frequency combs.
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Photonics Hot List: January 24, 2025

Jan. 24, 2025
In this episode: a spectroscopy method aids trace gas detection, China bans export of critical optics materials, and a new center and funding are set to boost industry.

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