The discovery, which has been published in the journal Optica, outlines the development of an optical fiber device which…

The C-Fiber 780 High Power model is characterized by an outstandingly low timing jitter on the attosecond level. Simulta…

The realization of high-performance micron-sized lasers directly grown on Si represents a major step toward utilization…

Concentrated Laser Beam Takes Down Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Quickly and Decisively

ATHENA employed advanced beam control technology and an efficient fiber laser in this latest series of tests of the prot…

New technique promises tunable laser devices

When light is stored in ring-shaped or spherical active resonators, the waves superimpose in such a way that it can resu…

Based on the original technology of IAP in Bern, Switzerland, and the high-level system design and manufacturing technol…

Physicists at HZDR discover optimum conditions for laser plasma acceleration

Together with other colleagues at the HZDR, the two researchers were the first to demonstrate how the beam loading effec…

Innovative control concept provides advantages in laser processing

The combined system substantially increases the image field size for wide-area marking, and in addition provides superio…

The European XFEL electron accelerator is a pioneer in the world of light sources as it is the only one to harness super…

A recently proposed method using lasers to remove soil contaminants may be cheaper and more efficient than conventional methods

To remove the harmful substance, the laser light heats up the pollutant locally, reaching temperatures of thousands of d…

The PULS is a picosecond laser oscillator offering a unique and monolithic solution for seeding ultrafast laser amplifie…

The iNTEGRA Fiber series is designed to integrate with a customer’s current manufacturing process so a business can upgr…

Premier at formnext: Additive Manufacturing of Copper Materials Using Selective Laser Melting with Green Light

Using green laser light with a wavelength of 515 nm the absorptivity of pure copper is much higher. This means that less…

Applications include LIBS, laser ablation and surface cleaning, laser-induced plasma, LIDAR (including flash LIDAR), ran…

A special glass asphere is placed in the optical path and focuses the diode’s divergent laser beam directly onto the

By monitoring the optical response of an externally probed laser cavity before and after gain clamping, a University of Central Florida and Yale collaboration reveals the underlying mechanisms driving the cavity's responses

What happens if you shine a laser beam through another laser cavity? It may not seem a practical question to ask experim…

Using a mechanical trick, scientists have succeeded in narrowing the spectrum of the pulses emitted by x-ray lasers

In contrast to standard lasers, which generate light of a single colour and wavelength, x-ray sources generally produce…

Instead of a red laser line, the Blue Laser diode generates a blue-violet laser beam with a wavelength of 405nm. The sha…

The FFC is an eye-safe, stand-alone, water-cooled photonic component that handles laser power levels of 12 kW. A range…

For the first time, researchers have built a nanolaser that uses only a single molecular layer, placed on a thin silicon…