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1. Laser Components Features Quality Powell Lenses For Line Lasers 6/18/2021

   Laser Components now has the capability to manufacture high quality Powell lenses in-house. Powell lenses generate lines by transforming narrow laser beams into straight lines with uniform intensity profile unlike standard cylindrical lenses that also create laser lines but with uneven Gaussian profiles.

2. NTHU Research Team Develops Self-Healing Quantum Emitter With Unprecedented Brightness 6/11/2021

   Although perovskite quantum dots (PQDs) are rising stars among quantum emitters, their inherent instability has limited their development

3. New Xenon-Jade Lens Series For 1.2" Sensors 6/10/2021

   Schneider-Kreuznach introduces the new, robust Xenon-Jade lens family for 1.2" sensors.

4. Australian Researchers Create Quantum Microscope That Can See The Impossible 6/10/2021

   In a major scientific leap, University of Queensland researchers have created a quantum microscope that can reveal biological structures that would otherwise be impossible to see.

5. Researchers Take Quantum Encryption Out Of The Lab 6/9/2021

   In a new study, researchers demonstrate an automated, easy-to-operate quantum key distribution (QKD) system using the fiber network in the city of Padua, Italy. The field test represents an important step toward implementing this highly secure quantum communication technology using the type of communication networks already in place in many regions around the world.

6. New Light On Making Two-Dimensional Polymers 6/9/2021

   An international research team with members from Linköping University, the Deutsches Museum and the Technical University of Munich, among others, has developed a method to manufacture two-dimensional polymers with the thickness of a single molecule.

7. Scientists Create Unique Instrument To Probe The Most Extreme Matter On Earth 6/8/2021

   Laser-produced high energy density plasmas(link is external), akin to those found in stars, nuclear explosions, and the core of giant planets, may be the most extreme state of matter created on Earth.

8. X-Ray Flash Imaging Of Laser-Induced Bubbles And Shockwaves In Water 6/8/2021

   Everyone is familiar with tiny gas bubbles gently rising up in sparkling water. But the bubbles that were created by intense focused lasers in this experiment were ten times smaller and contained water vapour at a pressure around a hundred thousand times higher.

9. Using Light To Monitor Cancer 6/8/2021

   Researchers at EPFL have developed a technology based on nanophotonics and data science to detect and monitor cancer biomarkers at an early stage. Their research is published in Nature Communications.

10. Femtosecond Spectroscopy And First-Principles Calculations Shed Light On Compositional Dependence Of Perovskite Nanocrystal Properties 6/8/2021

    Researchers from Skoltech and Ludwig Maximilians-Universität (LMU) in Germany have studied the fundamental properties of halide perovskite nanocrystals, a promising class of optoelectronic materials.