Swiss Laser Firm Acquires GigaTera

Ultrafast-laser manufacturer Chromacity appointed Robert Black and Richard Laming to its board directors as the company seeks to expand further into industrial markets. Black joins as nonexecutive...

Silicon photonics startup Xscape Photonics has raised $44 million — funding that the company said it plans to use to accelerate development of its ChromX platform. The scalable, multi-color,...

A recent discovery from the University of California, Davis (UC Davis), could enable faster and more efficient magnetic hard drives by using ultrafast laser pulses to process data. The findings could...

The ability to compress laser pulses to ultrahigh powers could open the way for compact lasers in the order of exawatt and above. Such powerful lasers would enable scientists to push the limits of...

The LumiSun-50™ from Innovations in Optics is a benchtop LED solar simulator for research applications such as PV cell testing and material degradation studies. The simulator uses...

The PM-EYDF-10P/130-XPH from Coherent is a single-mode, polarization-maintaining erbium-ytterbium co-doped optical fiber that can be used for coherent lidar and quantum computing cold atom trapping...

The Newport™ Replicated Freefrom Mirrors from MKS Instruments are nonrotationally symmetric reflective mirrors for use in analytical instruments, imaging systems, laser tracking, and...

The GN25L81 and GN25L42 from Semtech Corporation are a 2.5-G combo chip and burst mode PIN transimpedance amplifier, respectively, for 2.5-G PON FTTR optical line terminal applications. The GN25L42...

Over 60 years have passed since the first demonstration of a laser in 1960. After the initial spark of interest, lasers were for a while categorized as “a solution waiting for a problem,”...

Materials processing with lasers is actually a broad term for a diverse range of applications. The major categories of these uses, and the lasers that service them, are summarized Table 1. At one...

Early fiber lasers were inefficient and limited to low powers, until more effective methods emerged to deliver the pump light into the cladding. Valentin Gapontsev, founder and CEO of IPG Photonics,...

Laser diodes vary widely in their wavelengths, powers, spectra and beam quality. Yet they share two fundamental components with all other lasers: an optical amplifier and a resonator that confines...

This white paper will identify the specifications that can influence the scanner’s field of view and also highlight hardware and controller-oriented solutions for improving it. Key topics include:...

This article outlines laser specifications in deploying a standard laser module or choosing a custom laser module solution. The reader will gain insight into the key factors to consider when...

Finding the ideal ultra-fast laser source for a multiphoton imaging setup is not trivial. It is a fine balance between peak power, pulse energy and laser wavelength. In this white paper we show that...

An in-depth look at the advancements in quantum computing and the use of lasers from the team at the Bernien Lab at the University of Chicago. The team builds quantum computers out of individual...

Industrial laser applications such as 3D printing and micromachining require a variety of scan systems to accommodate current market demands. A trade-off always exists between throughput, accuracy,...

Characterized by robustness, small form factors, and attractive cost-performance ratios, state-of-the-art femtosecond fiber lasers are not only powering Nobel Prize-winning research but they are also...

Metasurfaces based on subwavelength patterning have major potential for realizing arbitrary control of the wavefront of diffracted light by achieving local control of the phase amplitude and...

Ultrafast lasers have been gaining popularity across various fields, and the trend has been ongoing for decades, with no signs of slowing down. As a critical part of optics, thin film coating extends...

Nonlinear polarization refers to the phenomenon where the polarization of a material responds nonlinearly to an applied electric field. In linear systems, the polarization of a material is directly...

Lithium triborate, commonly abbreviated as LBO, is a nonlinear optical crystal widely used in various applications involving frequency conversion of laser light. It is valued for its excellent...

An ultrafast pulsed laser is a type of laser that emits extremely short pulses of light with durations typically on the order of femtoseconds (10-15 seconds) or picoseconds (10-12 seconds). These...

An erbium-doped fiber laser (EDFL) is a type of laser that uses an optical fiber doped with erbium ions (Er³+) as the gain medium. These lasers are widely used in telecommunications, medical...

In this month's Light Matters Extra, we introduce you to Drake Anthony, aka styropyro. Drake, 25, has been building his own lasers since he was 12 years old. He's got quite the following on his...

Are you wondering how to select a laser for your application? Our knowledgeable staff has over 100 years of combined experience and will teach you how to select a laser that best fits your needs....

In this month’s Light Matters Extra, we take you to the Springfield Technical Community College campus and introduce you to Professor Nick Massa, who has been teaching Optics and Photonics there for...

Tune into this month’s edition of Light Matters for the complete list of Photonics Media’s Industry Beacon award winners. We’ll also introduce you to an Industry Beacon in the Educator category, and...

An ultrafast pulsed laser is a type of laser that emits extremely short pulses of light with durations typically on the order of femtoseconds (10^-15 s) or picoseconds (10^-15 s). These lasers are...

A fiber Bragg grating is a type of optical filter that is inscribed or "written" into the core of an optical fiber. It consists of a periodic modulation of the refractive index along the length of...

FOCtek provides customers with all types of custom manufactured lenses, Precision Optical Components, Polarizing Optics, Prisms, Filters, Coatings, Optical Systems, Crystals, Nonlinear Crystals,...

LaserPoint manufactures a wide portfolio of laser power and energy meters able to perform laser measurements with high accuracy. They developed the hard coatings to absorb the laser radiation which...

Established in 1985, OZ Optics is a leading worldwide supplier of fiber optic components, test equipment and sensors. OZ Optics manufactures its products in three locations, Ottawa (Canada),...

OHARA manufactures more than 130 environmentally safe optical glass types, free of both lead and arsenic. More than 300 tons of optical glass are melted per month, available in the following forms of...