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Mode-Locked Lasers Improved With Graphene Technology
Mode-Locked Lasers Improved With Graphene Technology
Ever since graphene sheets were isolated from bulk graphite in 2004, two-dimensional materials have received an immense amount of interest for their unexpected and novel electronic and optical properties. ...
Holmium Lasers: The Solid State Laser for Lithotripsy
Holmium Lasers: The Solid State Laser for Lithotripsy
Human beings have suffered from kidney stone problems since 7000 BC. Despite advances in treatment, incidence of renal stone disorder has increased over the past few decades. Lasers have been used to ...
Laser Cooling: A Future for Cryogenics Without Liquid Coolants
Laser Cooling: A Future for Cryogenics Without Liquid Coolants
Low temperature physics has helped us produce exotic quantum materials such as superconductors. This usually requires cryogenic fluids such as liquid nitrogen and helium for operation. Recently cooling ...
Silicon Photonic Circuits for Optical Interconnects and All Optical Processing
Silicon Photonic Circuits for Optical Interconnects and All Optical Processing
Silicon photonics is the technology of using optical processing components made of silicon itself, rather than other materials. Electronic interconnects with copper contribute to high power consumption and ...
Nonlinear Effects Using Slow Light With Integrated Photonics
Nonlinear Effects Using Slow Light With Integrated Photonics
Light travels at the speed of around 186,000 miles per second. This tremendous speed has enabled us to use light for telecommunication systems with low losses. Engineers are constantly driven to develop ...
Photonic Crystal Fibers for Sensing Applications
Photonic Crystal Fibers for Sensing Applications
Crystals are periodic structures in space. They are used in the electronics industry to control and manipulate electrons. These structures create energy gaps by allowing only electrons with certain ...
Photodynamic Therapy: Targeting Cancer with Light
Photodynamic Therapy: Targeting Cancer with Light
How research in photodynamic therapy may lead to new treatments of deadly diseases like cancer. Mesothelioma is a form of cancer that is most often associated with asbestos exposure.  Despite efforts of ...
OLED: A Primer on Organic LEDs
OLED: A Primer on Organic LEDs
Organic light-emitting diodes, or OLEDs, have been around for a while, but recent innovations and events have really brought them into the mainstream.  To many, the recent adoption of OLED displays for ...
Quantum Dots: The Basics
Quantum Dots: The Basics
If you’ve been in the market for new high-end TV lately, you may have run into what Samsung has coined as the QLED line of displays.  Display manufacturers tout this “state-of-the-art” display technology a ...
Neural Imaging with Visible Light: Advanced Implantable Sensor
Neural Imaging with Visible Light: Advanced Implantable Sensor
Previously, we discussed a technique for producing high resolution maps of neural activity in the brain called Optical Recording of Intrinsic Signal, or ORIS.  Conventional methods for performing ORIS ...