Ultrafast lasers on ultra-tiny chips
A nanophotonic mode-locked laser built on lithium niobate emits a beam of green laser light. Credit: Caltech…
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Tiny accelerators get electrons up to speed using lasers
One day, powerful particle accelerators might fit in your pocket.
Two teams of physicists have built tiny structures that both accelerate electrons and keep them confined in a…
50 years ago, scientists dreamed of lasers that could kick off nuclear fusion
Excerpt from the September 29, 1973 issue of Science News
Nearly 200 powerful lasers at the National…
Lasers enable internet backbone via satellite, may soon eliminate need for deep-sea cables
The researchers tested data transmission by laser over 53 kilometres from the Jungfraujoch to Zimmerwald near Bern.…
Lasers pave the way to better use of cement
Moini’s team seeks to better understand the strengths and limits of printed cements. Credit: Princeton University…
Using drones and lasers, researchers pinpoint greenhouse gas leaks
The retroflector mounted onto the drone. Credit: Bumper DeJesus, Princeton University
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DARPA, lasers and an internet in orbit
In light of this sort of thing, America’s military establishment is worried that its satellite network is not up to snuff. But it has a plan. The Space-Based Adaptive…
No, Fusion Energy Won’t Be ‘Limitless’
“It’s not a question I get very often,” says Michl Binderbauer, CEO of TAE Technologies, when asked about the economics of his company’s tokamak design. People are more likely to query how…
Lasers join lightweight sandwich structures
Fraunhofer IWS has developed a process to produce lightweight panels and profiles significantly faster as well as…
Lasers and chemistry reveal how ancient pottery was made — and how an empire functioned
Peru’s first great empire, the Wari, stretched for more than a thousand miles over the Andes Mountains and along the coast from 600-1000 CE. The pottery they left behind gives archaeologists…