The associated research has been published in Optica. It was co-led by Federico Capasso, the Robert L. Wallace Professor of Applied Physics and Vinton Hayes Senior Research Fellow in Electrical ...

Researchers have created an ultrasensitive laser the size of a penny that could improve lidar technology, boosting autonomous ...

Macquarie University researchers have demonstrated a technique to dramatically narrow the linewidth of a laser beam by a ...

Yet even today, very little is known about this matter’s fundamental properties. Although it operates in the background, dark ...

With their quick, non-destructive results, handheld Raman spectrometers are changing the way material analysis is done on the go. These portable devices can make it easier to do complicated analysis ...

For many patients, the idea of LASIK represents the end of glasses or contact lenses and the beginning of clearer vision. But ...

A team at Harvard and Vienna University of Technology have invented a new tunable laser that uses a series of rings to smoothly emit many light wavelengths from a single chip. The laser could replace ...

The growth of cryogenic computing including quantum computers and superconducting processors requires energy-efficient data links capable of operating between room and cryogenic temperatures. In this ...

The US Air Force is taking a bold step into the future of aerial combat with its revolutionary laser-powered fighter jet, equipped with the LANCE (Laser Advancements for Next-Generation Combat ...

Researchers have engineered a laser device smaller than a penny that they say could power everything from the LiDAR systems used in self-driving vehicles to gravitational wave detection, one of ...