Just as embroiderers, with needle and thread, can transform plain fabric into an intricate pattern, engineers can use lasers and polymers to create flexible, complex structures that could transform ...
Harvard researchers built a racetrack-shaped quantum cascade laser that makes bright, stable, mid-infrared frequency combs on ...
A team of University of California, San Diego researchers has built the smallest room-temperature nanolaser to date, as well as an even more startling device: a highly efficient, “thresholdless” laser ...
A new type of ultra-thin semiconductor laser under development at The University of Texas at Arlington can be integrated with mainstream electronics on the same silicon substrate with increased ...
Engineers have built the first fully solid-state phonon laser on a single chip, generating surface acoustic waves at about 1 ...
The U.S. Navy has brought its only 150 kW high-energy laser weapon back online after months of engineering work, a ...