Laser News
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Pentagon Developing Laser-Shooting Drones To Intercept Enemy Missiles
2/15/2018
The U.S. Missile Defense Agency (MDA) is proposing to spend $66 million on a program to develop and deploy unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) that fire lasers at intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) shortly after takeoff, or during their boost phase of flight, when they are most vulnerable.
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'Optically Pumped' Laser Closer To Improving Processing Speed Of Sensors
2/9/2018
Imagine creating a material for the digital information highway that allows a fast lane of laser light that zips data past the traditional silicon chips.
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Seeing Optical Parametric Oscillators In A New Light
2/8/2018
Stanford researchers have bucked standard guidelines to retool a formerly finicky device to shoot ultrafast light pulses useful in remote sensing and diagnostic applications.
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Injector Gun, Cryomodule Delivered For SLAC's X-Ray Laser Upgrade
1/25/2018
The injector gun and first cryomodule for Linac Coherent Light Source II (LCLS-II) — one of the most advanced superconducting laser projects in the world and the only one in the U.S. — have arrived at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory in Menlo Park, California.
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Advances In Lasers Get To The Long And Short Of It
1/24/2018
A new way of modifying the dipole moment of cholesteric liquid crystals allows for researchers to select between the different band-edge modes experimentally for the first time.
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Scientists Achieve High Power With New Smaller Laser
1/22/2018
An international team of scientists has produced the first high-powered, randomly polarised laser beam with a "Q switch" laser, which typically emits pulses of light so brief that they're measured in nanoseconds.
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Chinese Scientists Develop World's First All-Silicon Laser
1/22/2018
Scientists at Fudan University in Shanghai, China, have demonstrated the world's first optically pumped all-silicon distributed-feedback (DFB) laser, a key achievement toward realizing possibilities in integrated silicon photonics.
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First Superconducting RF Cryomodule Delivered For Ultrapowerful X-Ray Laser At SLAC
1/19/2018
Earlier this week, scientists and engineers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Fermilab in Illinois loaded one of the most advanced superconducting radio-frequency cryomodules ever created onto a truck and sent it heading west.
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Unique Topological Phenomena In An Open System Of Photonic Crystals
1/16/2018
Scientists at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have observed two distinct topological effects in an open system of photonic crystals. Such phenomena open new possibilities in making novel light-based computing systems or light-emitting devices.
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UK Will Use LiDAR To Map Nation’s Entire Landscape By 2020
12/30/2017
The Environment Agency has announced plans to map England’s entire landscape by 2020, using the data to assess flood risk and inform conservation work.