International Conference on Ultrafast Structural Dynamics (ICUSD)

Berlin, Germany

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New Suite of Femtosecond Lasers Lowers Costs and Complexity of Microscopy

Tracks of heavy ions 'imprinted' in lithium fluoride crystals. At the top, spot tracks observed under a fluorescence microscope in plates perpendicular to the heavy ion beam. At the bottom, the ion tracks in the parallel oriented plate (the blurring at both ends of the trace is an artifact of the depth of focus of the microscope). False colors.

Lithium fluoride fluorescent crystals track high-energy heavy ions such as iron

Single-layer OLED design could dramatically reduce display costs

When illuminated with laser light, a liquid-crystal elastomer robot (inset) about 1 cm long crawls up walls and across ceilings just like the banded snail sitting next to it.

Light-activated LC elastomer propels biomimetic “snail robot”

$Operation principles of a differential diffractive optical neural network. Since diffractive optical neural networks operate using coherent illumination, phase and/or amplitude channels of the input plane can be used to represent information.$

International Conference on Ultrafast Structural Dynamics (ICUSD)

New Suite of Femtosecond Lasers Lowers Costs and Complexity of Microscopy

Lithium fluoride fluorescent crystals track high-energy heavy ions such as iron

Single-layer OLED design could dramatically reduce display costs

Light-activated LC elastomer propels biomimetic “snail robot”

With new differential detection scheme, all-optical diffractive neural networks get performance boost

Lasers for lidar and more

Business Forum: Laser markets evolve, price battles continue—an interview with John Ambroseo

QCL-based infrared spectroscopic ellipsometer rapidly acquires data

Large-field cryogenic objective mirror has nearly diffraction-limited performance

Metasurface optic for Gaussian beams accepts a nonplanar input beam

Nanoparticle-embedded stretchy optical fibers monitor body temperature

Frequency-comb Sources: One microresonator-based soliton comb replaces multiple WDM lasers

Spectroscopy/Optical Imaging: Fourier-transform analysis helps optical method improve RA detection

Optical Fabrication: Glassblowing technique creates arrays of axicon lenses

Quantum Sources: Squeezed quantum dots create coherent streams of quantum-ready photons

Photonics Modeling: Optical Ising machines solve complex engineering, science, and even business problems