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Scientists Report a New Class of Chirp-Free Pulse in Normal-Dispersion Fiber Lasers

Over the past decades, researchers have demonstrated conventional solitons, stretched pulses, self-similar pulses, and dissipative solitons by managing the dispersion and nonlinearity of fiber lasers.

31 Jan 2022

New Type of Optical Device Created Using Alumina to Enhance Telescope Performance

Researchers from the Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe and the University of Minnesota, Tomotake Matsumura and Shaul Hanany, respectively, and their collaborators have created a new kind of optical element that will enhance the performance of telescopes analyzing radiation from the Big Bang.

28 Jan 2022

University of Surrey and Space Power Join Hands to Revolutionize Satellite Power Using Laser Beaming

The University of Surrey and Space Power are tackling the problem of powering satellites in Low Earth Orbit (LEO) during their eclipse period when they cannot see the sun.

28 Jan 2022

Large Diameter Optics, Mirrors & Optical Mounts

Optical Surfaces Ltd is an established supplier of large diameter mirrors, optical flats, windows, lenses, beam expanders and collimators to leading research establishments worldwide.

From Optical Surfaces Ltd. 28 Jan 2022

Clean Air Action Plan has Changed the Black Carbon and Aerosol Optical Properties in Beijing

As the major absorbing aerosols, black carbon exerts positive radiative forcing on the atmosphere and affects the radiation balance of the earth-atmosphere system and hence aerosol-boundary interactions.

27 Jan 2022

Breaking the Mode Symmetry to Enhance Optical Trapping Behavior

Optical tweezers use light to immobilize microscopic particles as small as a single atom in 3D space. The basic principle behind optical tweezers is the momentum transfer between light and the object being hold. Much analogous to the water pushing on a dam that blocks the stream, light pushes onto objects (and also attracts them) that make the light bend.

27 Jan 2022

Researchers Build Gear-Shaped Microresonator Without Sacrificing Optical Quality

Researchers including a postdoc at the University of Massachusetts Amherst have created a gear-shaped photonic crystal microring that increases the strength of light-matter interactions without sacrificing optical quality.

27 Jan 2022

Photonis Launches Easy-to-Integrate Image Intensification Solutions at SPIE Photonics West Conference

Photonis has announced its participation at the SPIE Photonics West Conference, taking place Jan. 25-28, 2022, at the Moscone Center, San Francisco, California, USA.

From PHOTONIS Technologies S.A.S. 26 Jan 2022

Up to 3M€ Funding Opportunity to Implement Free-Form Micro-Optical Components

To advance Europe’s competitiveness and support advanced technical developments, the European Commission is providing €3 million of funding to early adopters of the PHABULOuS Pilot Line Services for the implementation and integration of free-form micro-optical components.

25 Jan 2022

Fixed Focus Radiation Resistant Lenses

For close-up inspection tasks in high radiation environments. Resolve Optics offers both a standard range as well as customer specified fixed focus radiation resistant lenses.

From Resolve Optics Ltd. 25 Jan 2022