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1. How Do Your Industrial Coatings Systems Hold Up? 10/16/2020

   Laser Components, a global manufacturer of laser optics, offers a wide array of optimally adapted products to meet every customer’s unique requirements. From substrate production and coatings to thorough outgoing goods inspection, all operating steps are carried out in house. Many end products, such as internal coating optics from NUTECH, require small numbers of precisely manufactured optics, used to equip tubes and hollow bodies with corrosion and wear protection from the inside.

2. Realizing Optical Chips 10/14/2020

   The aim is to develop optically integrated semiconductor chips, i.e. circuits that work with photons instead of electrons.

3. SLAC Starts Up New Facility To Revolutionize Particle Accelerators 10/12/2020

   A new facility that could pave the way for a future generation of particle colliders and powerful light sources has turned on at the Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory.

4. Ultrashort Pulse Lasers For Large Components 10/9/2020

   A paradigm shift is underway in manufacturing. A research team with staff from the Fraunhofer Institute for Laser Technology ILT in Aachen on its roster has broken new ground by using numerous laser beams as tools to structure surfaces.

5. Revealing The Reason Behind Jet Formation At The Tip Of Laser Optical Fiber 10/9/2020

   When an optical fiber is immersed in liquid, a high temperature, high speed jet is discharged. Researchers expect this to be applied to medical treatment in the future. Now, a research team from Russia and Japan has explored this phenomenon further and revealed the reasons behind the jet formation.

6. The Most Sensitive Optical Receivers Yet For Space 10/9/2020

   In a new paper published in the scientific journal Nature: Light Science & Applications, a team of researchers describes a free-space optical transmission system relying on an optical amplifier that, in principle, does not add any excess noise – in contrast to all other preexisting optical amplifiers, referred to as phase-sensitive amplifiers (PSAs).

7. An Electrical Trigger Fires Single, Identical Photons 10/8/2020

   Secure telecommunications networks and rapid information processing make much of modern life possible. To provide more secure, faster, and higher-performance information sharing than is currently possible, scientists and engineers are designing next-generation devices that harness the rules of quantum physics.

8. Nanoscale Machines Convert Light Into Work 10/8/2020

   Researchers have developed a tiny new machine that converts laser light into work. These optically powered machines self-assemble and could be used for nanoscale manipulation of tiny cargo for applications such as nanofluidics and particle sorting.

9. Generating Photons For Communication In A Quantum Computing System 10/7/2020

   MIT researchers using superconducting quantum bits connected to a microwave transmission line have shown how the qubits can generate on demand the photons, or particles of light, necessary for communication between quantum processors.

10. Terahertz Zaps Alter Gene Activity In Stem Cells 10/7/2020

    Terahertz light pulses change gene expression in stem cells, report researchers from Kyoto University’s Institute for Integrated Cell-Material Sciences (iCeMS) and Tokai University in Japan in the journal Optics Letters.