Photons in relatively weak beams of light could be made to interact with each other by shining them through a piece of silicon with a specific set of voids cut through it. That is the conclusion of ...

SANTA BARBARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Freedom Photonics, a leader in photonic components, modules and subsystems, announced its aura TM single mode diode laser amplifier achieved a new performance ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This is one section of a laser ...

Diagram of coherent beam combining experimental setup. Credit: Shuangxi Peng, Zhihao Wang, Feilong Hu, Zhengyan Li, Qingbin Zhang, Peixiang Lu Diagram of coherent beam combining experimental setup.

The world's highest gain high power laser amplifier - by many orders of magnitude - has been developed in research led at the University of Strathclyde. The researchers demonstrated the feasibility of ...

The last decade has been marked by a series of remarkable discoveries identifying how the universe is composed. It is understood that the mysterious substance dark matter makes up 85 % of the matter ...

Despite the claims, long-haul optical networking is far from dead. With traditional carriers are operating many spans near capacity and the RBOCs are entering the long-haul market, there is no doubt ...

Chirped pulse amplification (CPA) has become a common technique for damage-free amplification of short optical pulses to terawatt levels and beyond. Typical high-repetition-rate Ti:sapphire chirped ...