The interface allows for modulation either by analog or digital methods. In addition, the digital electronics allow grea…

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed a laser-based instrument that ge…

MIT/NASA Lunar Laser Communication Team to Present First Report on Record-Shattering Earth-to-Moon Uplink and its On-Orbit Performance

If future generations were to live and work on the moon or on a distant asteroid, they would probably want a broadband c…

TOPTICA introduces a new family of continuously tunable diode lasers

The new family of CTL diode lasers permits mode-hop free tuning across the full gain spectrum of the integrated laser di…

Delivery of First Guide Star Laser Accepted by ESO.

Over the course of the last three years, TOPTICA has developed a new generation of sodium guide star lasers to be deploy…

New ways of shaping ultra short laser pulses have been found at the Vienna University of Technology: An “optical synthesizer” increases the intensity of attosecond light flashes.

New ways of shaping ultra short laser pulses have been found at the Vienna University of Technology: An “optical synthes…

Simplifying an ultrafast laser offers better control

For researchers, capturing images of a moving electron is the holy grail of molecular imaging. But in their efforts to g…

With advancements in welding technology from TIG to laser, new production and market opportunities appeared.

Sharper, Safer and Brighter than Red Laser Light

Green DPSS laser modules are generally large, expensive and noisy with low thermal stability. Green light is produced b…

Prototype Successful in Tests with Both Sea-based and Airborne Targets

In tests off the California coast, a Lockheed Martin prototype laser system successfully disabled two boats at a range o…

Intracavity harmonic generation is naturally more efficient than external cavity harmonic generation. In addition, it al…

This next generation of the metrology-grade HandySCAN 3D aims to revolutionize the 3D laser scanning market once again with never-before-seen performance levels

The new HandySCAN 300 and HandySCAN 700 provide ground-breaking accuracy, resolution and substantially higher measuremen…

For the first time, researchers have shown that diamond can radically improve the quality of high power laser beams, acc…

How to make a gamma-ray laser with positronium

This work is the first to account for effects of collisions between different positronium species. These collisions put…

LZH scientists have developed a laser-based process for joining glass parts made of borosilicate and quartz glass

With ultra-short laser pulses, chemical reactions can be controlled at the Vienna University of Technology. Electrons have little mass and are therefore influenced by the laser, whereas the atomic nuclei are much heavier and are hardly affected.

With ultra-short laser pulses, chemical reactions can be controlled at the Vienna University of Technology. Electrons ha…

The criteria costs, required time and resources for system integration, modularity of the components, interfaces to othe…

A new version of spaser technology being investigated could mean that mobile phones become so small, efficient, and flex…

The Nanophotonics Group of the Laser Zentrum Hannover has developed a method to print nanoparticles made of different ma…

The new TruLaser Tube 5000, built by TRUMPF, is a high-productivity, all-round machine to cut tubes with a laser beam. I…