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Episode 3 of Following the Photons: A Photonics Podcast features Pierre-Mary Paul, VP and director of the Advanced Laser Solutions Business Unit at Amplitude Laser.
Serendipity in the form of an active photoconductive material—a semiconductor phase embedded within glass—that generates a current reliably for months when exposed ultraviolet...
A breathing soliton laser helps researchers discover modulated subharmonics, a new state of nonlinear systems, which contains both synchronized and desynchronized signals.
Researchers in Spain create nontoxic colloidal quantum dots that preserve the advantageous properties of their heavy-metal counterparts—and use them in high-performance SWIR photodetect...
Compared to electrical detection, an all-optical ultrafast laser technique provides the resolution needed to explore electron transport within ballistic and coherent regimes.