A novel, laser-based hyperspectral imaging technology can detect minute quantities of threat materials at range, with applications from defense and security to the oil and gas...
In war zones, at airport security screening, around oil refineries, in manufacturing facilities-the list of hazardous environments or potential danger reflects the nature of the...
In this column, I interview Wolfgang Gries, founder and CEO of DirectPhotonics, a maker of ultra-high-brightness direct-diode laser solutions for materials processing, about his...
Researchers at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) have combined laser diodes with inorganic phosphors to create efficient, stable sources of white light.
Nov. 7, 2013
(Courtesy of Stanford University/SLAC National Laboratory)
Stanford University, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), and Tech-X Corporation researchers have demonstrated high-gradient (beyond...
Researchers from Chiba University and Warsaw University of Technology have demonstrated a lensless zoomable holographic projector based on so-called scaled Fresnel diffraction...
Borrowing methods from highly chemical-specific coherent anti-Stokes Raman spectroscopy (CARS) technology, researchers at Michigan State University (MSU) have developed a single...
Tsinghua University and Capital Normal University researchers have demonstrated that large-diameter polymer light pipes can transmit singlemode terahertz radiation when fabricated...
Coherent has unveiled an optical bus that combines multiple laser wavelengths into a single instrument (for example, to simultaneously excite multiple fluorophores).
It is important in the petroleum industry to be able to characterize different refined-oil mixtures, which include diesel/gasoline and gasoline/gasoline (different octane grades...
While the 802 cm-1 Raman shift band of cyclohexane measured with a traditional Czerny-Turner spectrograph has a peak width of 9.16 cm-1, the same peak measured with an IsoPlane...
A high-power mid-infrared (mid-IR) fiber laser developed at Zhejiang University in China and based on quasi-synchronously pumping periodically poled magnesium-oxide doped lithium...
