Tiny light sources no wider than a human hair may soon change how information is transmitted and how screens are built. Researchers at the University of California, Santa Barbara have developed a new ...

Processing diamond surfaces with femtosecond lasers yields a trade-off between hydrophilicity and low defect rate.

Chemists in South Korea have created a stable color-changing sensor that displays an easily quantifiable response to the pH of its surroundings. Published in Microsystems & Nanoengineering, Dong-Hwan ...

At any given moment, 89,000 terawatts of solar power hits the Earth’s surface. While significant advancements have been made in harvesting this power, existing technologies do not capture the full ...

Rezoning decision opens sacred Dan River lands to heavy industry despite community opposition and unresolved cultural ...

Applied physicists in the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have discovered a new way to generate ultra-precise, evenly spaced "combs" of laser light on a ...

The laser module is one of the least reliable components in such a system. For that reason, it remains in a convenient pluggable form, enabling easy and inexpensive replacement. If designers were to ...

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President Trump on Wednesday directed the Pentagon to purchase more power from coal plants in a boost to the declining fossil fuel. “I will sign an executive order that directs the Department of War ...

Inertia Enterprises has raised $450 million to build one of the world’s most powerful lasers, which it hopes will serve as the foundation of a grid-scale power plant the fusion startup intends to ...

Abstract: We demonstrate a single-frequency fiber laser (SFFL) with sub-kHz linewidth and ultra-low intensity noise, which is realized by a ring configuration. A newly generalized method to ...