Editor’s Picks

  1. Smuggling Light Through Opaque Materials 10/5/2021

    Electrical engineers at Duke University have discovered that changing the physical shape of a class of materials commonly used in electronics and near- and mid-infrared photonics—chalcogenide glasses—can extend their use into the visible and ultraviolet parts of the electromagnetic spectrum.

  2. Laser Technology Scores $1.5 Million in Orders for Q1 2000 12/29/1999
    Pulsed laser measuring system manufacturer Laser Technology Inc. (Englewood, CO) has logged a total of $1.5 million in orders for handheld devices during the first quarter of fiscal year 2000
  3. Realization Of High-Performance Magnetic Sensors Due To Magnetic Vortex Structures 6/14/2018

    Magnetic sensors play a key role in a variety of applications, such as speed and position sensing in the automotive industry or in biomedical applications. Within the framework of the Christian Doppler Laboratory "Advanced Magnetic Sensing and Materials" headed by Dieter Süss novel magnetic sensors have been realized that surpass conventional technologies in performance and accuracy in a cooperation between the University of Vienna, the Danube University Krems and Infineon AG.

  4. Researchers Observe Interference Effect Between Floquet Quasi-Particles Using Strontium Optical Lattice Clock 9/24/2021

    Based on the strontium optical lattice clock platform, a research team led by Prof. CHANG Hong from the National Time Service Center of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, together with ZHANG Xuefeng from Chongqing University observed the interference effect between Floquet quasi-particles. Relevant results were published in Physical Review Letters.

  5. New Compact Photomultiplier Designed For Photon Applications 1/8/2007
    The Photonis Group announced the introduction of an exciting new 13mm (.5 inch) round photomultiplier tube featuring an ideal combination of high gain and low noise that covers the spectral range of 270-650 nm
  6. Holographic Laser Enhances Nanophotonic Devices 2/27/2017

    A new method to tune nanocavities using digital holography enables the researchers to program photonic circuits by switching them into and out of resonance.

  7. Mobius Photonics Delivers Upgraded Fiber Laser For STED Microscopy 1/19/2010
    Mobius Photonics, an innovative producer of short pulsed fiber laser sources (IR, green, and UV laser), has delivered an upgraded fiber laser that produces visible light with 20MHz pulse repetition rate to a leading European research institute. Tailored for stimulated emission depletion (STED) microscopy experiments, the laser has been designed to dramatically improve imaging speed over prior STED set ups that used 1MHz Mobius lasers.
  8. BGU Researchers Achieve Breakthrough In Camouflaging An Optical Chip Rendering It Invisible 11/13/2017

    BGU researchers have achieved a breakthrough in manipulating light to theoretically render an object, such as an optical chip, invisible.

  9. PI's Newest 32mm Wide x 7mm High Compact Rotary Stage 12/10/2015

    PI (Physik Instrumente) has recently announced the Q-632 as the newest piezo inertia drive rotary stage to the existing product line of compact linear and rotary systems. This compact micropositioning drive features a 30 mm turnable diameter with a 360° rotation range, and is only 32 mm wide and 7 mm high.

  10. Researchers Reach New Data Transmission Record With 1.8 Petabits Per Second 10/20/2022

    An international group of researchers from Technical University of Denmark (DTU) and Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg, Sweden have achieved dizzying data transmission speeds and are the first in the world to transmit more than 1 petabit per second (Pbit/s) using only a single laser and a single optical chip.