Laser Technology

As electronic devices shrink and computing power demands soar, chip designs must become even more compact. This requires lasers with tighter beam stability, higher pulse‑to‑pulse energy consistency, and nanometer‑scale positioning accuracy. Bloom Laser, based in Pessac, France, designs and produces pulsed lasers of exceptional beam quality—with laser beam quality factor (M2) values <1.2. To achieve […]

In this episode of Photonics Hot List: A new laser platform by a team at Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden, which integrates optical components and hundreds of microscopic lasers on a one-centimeter chip, is paving the way for tiny biosensors that could potentially move lab testing from hospitals to homes. Business news roundup: Photonics

This edition of Following the Photons features Brian O’Connor, vice president of Growth and Strategy at Aerotech, a globally reaching developer of advanced precision motion control and automation technologies for industries including optics and photonics, precision manufacturing, and life sciences. He recently sat down with our host Justine Murphy at the SPIE Photonics West exhibition

By pairing a nanostructure of silver with an atomically thin semiconductor layer, a team of researchers from Italy, the U.K., and Germany, led by Christoph Lienau, a physics professor at the University of Oldenburg, created an ultrafast switching mirror device that can serve as an optical transistor—and it clocks in at a speed 10,000x faster

The injected pump field-generates third-harmonic radiation within the visible (close to 500 nm) inside the silicon, which inherits the pump’s phase gradient. This gives rise to nonlinear polarization currents that scatter the third harmonic to the far field in a direction dictated by the engineered phase gradient. Because the phase gradient of the third-harmonic field

The Marine Icing model for the Norwegian Coast Guard (NoCG; MINCOG) formulated in 2016 by Eirik Samuelsen of the Norwegian Meteorology Institute includes more metocean data, plus selected ship and course details based on the accretion rates observed onboard three Norwegian Coast Guard vessels of the class NoCG “Nordkapp” navigating within the Barents Sea during the

In this episode: Laser therapy treats brain tumors in dogs, two companies announce management changes, and topological insulators reach the THz range. Source link

In this episode of Photonics Hot List: A team at the University of Strathclyde in the U.K. is working to make high-level, advanced imaging tools more accessible using a consumer-grade 3D printer and low-cost materials. Business news roundup: VIAVI Solutions is joining forces with Squareroot8 to ultimately make quantum security even more secure. And global

During the past 25+ years, the journey of my career has been both exciting and fulfilling. Experiencing the anxiety of the “Millennium Bug,” the “Telecom Bubble,” and more recently the “AI Boom” gives me an insightful view of the road that lies ahead. As I started writing this article, I decided to approach it not

In this episode of Photonics Hot List: A team led by Scripps Research can now see how medications interact with cells as they make their way to the intended target in the body, thanks to a new imaging technique. Business news roundup: Sydor Optics has announced its acquisition of Vertex Optics, and FARO Technologies is