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Laser Marking: The Light Pencil To Fulfill Imagination And Artistry
Laser Marking: The Light Pencil To Fulfill Imagination And Artistry
Laser marking has spread into a wide spectrum of industrial fields. In this picture, an industrial laser is engraving an aerospace component. Courtesy of laserimpressions.com What Is Laser Marking? It has ...
Ultrafast Amplifiers: What To Choose Among All Models
Ultrafast Amplifiers: What To Choose Among All Models
Ultrafast amplifiers are devices that can boost the pulse energy and the average powers of ultrashort pulse trains. While the prospect of applying ultrafast amplifiers on laser systems is appealing, it ...
X-Ray Microscopy: A Bigger World In A Smaller Scale
X-Ray Microscopy: A Bigger World In A Smaller Scale
Ever since x-ray was first discovered by Sir Wilhelm Röntgen, scientists have started the enthusiastic exploration of its potential for imaging applications. Among all the sub-fields, x-ray microscopy has ...
Bladeless LASIK: A Laser Technology That Helps You See Clearer
Bladeless LASIK: A Laser Technology That Helps You See Clearer
A Dilemma of Choices If you are suffering from vision degradation like myopia, hyperopia and astigmatism, you are probably considering LASIK (laser-assisted in situ keratomileusis) cornea surgery, so as to ...
Selecting the right waveplate for your application
Selecting the right waveplate for your application
If you need to control the state of polarization of your light or change the direction of polarization of your beam or change from linear polarization to circular polarization (or vice versa) or create any ...
Mica Waveplates – What You Need to Know
Mica Waveplates – What You Need to Know
General Information Mica is a naturally occurring birefringent biaxial crystal. It is cleaved into wafers of precisely controlled thickness to produce optical retarders at user-specified wavelengths. Due ...
Graphene: Potential Applications in Solar Cells
Graphene: Potential Applications in Solar Cells
Graphene (a form of fullerene) is a nanomaterial that has been attracting significant interest as a potential game changer for various applications. Energy storage, flexible transparent displays and ...
Teledyne LeCroy, Coherent Solutions, Anritsu and Oclaro – 400G test platform at OFC 2016
Teledyne LeCroy, Coherent Solutions, Anritsu and Oclaro – 400G test platform at OFC 2016
High-performance platform for 400G test combines a new DAC-based 56 Gbaud PAM4 generator with the highest-bandwidth coherent transmitter and optical modulation analyzer available Chestnut Ridge, NY, ...
A Chip-Scale Workbench for Quantum Computing
Stewart Wills Scientists in the United Kingdom and Japan have fabricated a glass chip with an optical waveguide circuit that’s capable of implementing a universal set of linear optical transformations—and ...
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