Precision Imaging Through Flames

13th August 2018 by Leave a Comment

A laser detection and ranging system can see 3D-objects melting in fires

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Continuously Emitting Microlasers

20th June 2018 by Leave a Comment

A new energy-looping excitation mechanism in lanthanide-doped upconverting nanoparticles

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Single Microcomb Replaces Multiple Lasers

13th June 2018 by Leave a Comment

First coherent-transmission experiments using amplitude modulation of a dark-pulse comb

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Smelling With a Laser

8th June 2018 by Leave a Comment

Real-time and accurate measurements of gas properties with an optical frequency comb

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Spectroscopy of Levitated Droplets

18th May 2018 by Leave a Comment

Laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy detects elements in a single water droplet

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An Ultra-Thin Membrane Laser

8th May 2018 by Leave a Comment

Some of the world’s smallest and lightest lasers made by floating a thin plastic film off a substrate.

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Data Transmission With Laser Frequency Combs

1st May 2018 by Leave a Comment

Discovery has the potential of increasing the capacity of wireless communications

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Twisting Laser Light Probes Chirality

9th April 2018 by Leave a Comment

A new method to sensitively measure the structure of molecules

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Charging with a Laser

2nd March 2018 by Leave a Comment

First design of an end-to-end power delivery system delivers more than 2 W for a smartphone

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Tuning Liquid-Crystal-Lasers

30th January 2018 by Leave a Comment

Lasing can be reversibly switched from the short-wavelength to the long-wavelength edge mode by applying a voltage

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