What will the operating room of the future look like? Well, if the suggestions in an eye-opening technical forum on robotic surgery at LASER World of Photonics prove accurate then we will see some ...

The optical industry “almost completely relies on mechanical processes in its process chains,” So says laser and photonics research center Fraunhofer Institute for Laser Technology (ILT). This, ...

A new technology in the fiber-optics market is striking the right note with investors and raising cash at a time when industry confidence is low and venture capital is hard to find. A number of ...

In the experiment, a high-power green laser passed through a ruby cube, illuminated from the side by a blue laser. The green laser increased the ruby’s absorption of the blue light, creating a darker ...

PITTSBURGH, Jan. 14, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- II‐VI Incorporated (Nasdaq: IIVI), a leader in laser optics and subsystems, today announced the introduction of its electro-optic modulators, based on ...

Space junk is a growing problem. Better fight it with lasers. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Telescope operators figured out ...

SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics, awarded their Gold Medal to Maryellen Giger (pictured here with her team) for pioneering work in computer-aided diagnosis and image ...

Much of this story is going to sound like hokum, but bear with me because doughnut-shaped laser beams have become my new favourite scientific innovation. Especially since scientists were able to ...

Relativistic electron bunches were generated via the incidence of a high power laser onto a gas jet. The TR radiation emitted when electron passing through a metal foil was imaged to an EO crystal.