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Technische Universitaet Muenchen Laser researchers in Munich are challenging a basic assumption of engineering: "You can't have it all." They have shown that for certain kinds of laser applications in biomedical imaging, material processing, and communications, a new approach could deliver the desired capabilities with no problematic tradeoffs: in compact, inexpensive, efficient and long-lived devices that produce ultrashort, high-energy light pulses. This research is a close collaboration...
University of Southampton An international team of physicists has proposed a revolutionary laser system, inspired by the telecommunications technology, to produce the next generation of particle accelerators, such as the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). The International Coherent Amplification Network (ICAN) sets out a new laser system composed of massive arrays of thousands of fiber lasers, for both fundamental research at laboratories such as CERN and more applied tasks such as proton...
ANAHEIM, Calif., March 18, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- OFC/NFOEC 2013, Booth #2627 -- Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd. has developed and started mass production of the FOL 1437 series of 14xx nm pump source lasers with high output and low power consumption in the 1420nm - 1460nm range. These are key devices for use in Raman amplifiers, demand for which is expected to increase as the telecommunications industry accelerates adoption of ultrahigh-speed communications at 100 gigabits...
Pump Lasers Reduce Footprint by 2X while Delivering 60% Lower Power Consumption SAN JOSE, Calif., March 12, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Oclaro, Inc.( )(NASDAQ: OCLR), a tier-one provider and innovator of optical communications and laser solutions, today announced the industry's first commercially-available dual-chip uncooled pump laser that features a smaller form factor, reduced cost, improved performance, and lower power consumption compared to competing cooled pumps. The dual-chip pump...
SUNNYVALE, Calif., Jan. 24, 2013 /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- Calmar Laser, a developer and manufacturer of leading-edge, fiber based picosecond and femtosecond lasers, today introduced the new Carmel family of all fiber-based femtosecond lasers, which at 780nm, 500mW of power, 10 nJ of pulse energy, and less than 100fs pulse widths, are ideally suited for multiphoton microscopy, biophotonics applications, materials characterization, optical metrology, and terahertz radiation. Calmar has...
Using the world’s fastest laser pulses, which can freeze the ultrafast motion of electrons and atoms, UA physicists have caught the action of molecules breaking apart and electrons getting knocked out of atoms. Their research helps us better understand molecular processes and ultimately be able to control them in many possible applications. In 1878, a now iconic series of photographs instantly solved a long-standing mystery: Does a galloping horse touch the ground at all times? (It...
AMSTERDAM, Sept. 17, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- ECOC 2012, Stand 335 - OFS, a leading designer, manufacturer and supplier of innovative fiber optic network products, today announced the launch of its new erbium doped fiber (EDF) MP980-II product as part of its broad RightWave(TM) EDF portfolio. The new MP980-II product was developed based on erbium doped fiber amplifier (EDFA) customer requirements for a higher power range (up to 600mW) combined with better efficiency, low noise figure,...
April Flowers for redOrbit.com -- Your Universe Online An international team of scientists has developed a laser with a frequency stability previously unequalled. This is the result of a research cooperation of the Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB) within the scope of the Excellence Cluster QUEST (Centre for Quantum Engineering and Space-Time Research) with colleagues from the National Institute of Standards and Technology/JILA. Their development, published in the journal...
A University of Central Florida research team has created the world's shortest laser pulse and in the process may have given scientists a new tool to watch quantum mechanics in action – something that has been hidden from view until now. UCF Professor Zenghu Chang from the Department of Physics and the College of Optics and Photonics, led the effort that generated a 67-attosecond pulse of extreme ultraviolet light. The results of his research are published online under Early Posting in...
redOrbit Staff & Wire Reports – Your Universe Online A team of Northwestern University researchers have developed a laser that they claim creates the purest, brightest, and most powerful beam ever developed for use in standoff sensing applications. Manijeh Razeghi, a Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science in the university's McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science, and colleagues have crafted a new resonator that they believe will produce improved...
