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Photonics Spectra Monthly — Attosecond Sources, Automotive Lighting, Supercontinuum Generation, and more… (11/8/2023)

Photonics Spectra Monthly — Attosecond Sources, Automotive Lighting, Supercontinuum Generation, and more…
Monthly newsletter from the editors of Photonics Spectra, with features, popular topics, new products, and what's coming in the next issue.
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Wednesday, November 8, 2023
Monthly newsletter from the editors of Photonics Spectra, with features, popular topics, new products, and what's coming in the next issue. Manage your Photonics Media membership at Photonics.com/subscribe.

The Path to Practical Attosecond Sources Is Getting Shorter
The Path to Practical Attosecond Sources Is Getting Shorter
Attosecond photonics allows for deep insights into material dynamics on ultrashort timescales and at nanometer resolutions. Because the attosecond is the natural timescale of electron motion within atoms, molecules, and solids, the applications for attosecond photonics range from research in physics, chemistry, medicine, the life sciences, and perhaps even manufacturing.
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Automotive Lighting Turns a Corner
Automotive Lighting Turns a Corner
Studies cited by the Independent Institute for Highway Safety show that using automatic switching on old-fashioned high beams whenever possible reduces nighttime automotive crashes with animals, pedestrians, and unlit bicycles or cars by 26%. With the advent of inexpensive and rugged visible-range LEDs and other photonic technologies, automobile lighting is rapidly improving both inside and outside the vehicle.
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New Supercontinuum Generation Sources Put Handheld Devices Within Reach
New Supercontinuum Generation Sources Put Handheld Devices Within Reach
With the development of patterned alternating dispersion waveguides, supercontinuum sources can be made significantly more compact and efficient in a package that fits in the palm of a hand.
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Quasiparticle Light Source Could Rival Super-Brightness of FELs
Quasiparticle Light Source Could Rival Super-Brightness of FELs
An international team of scientists is rethinking the principles of radiation physics, with the goal of creating super-bright light sources that are compact and relatively convenient to use. Coherent light sources such as free-electron lasers provide super-bright beams for studying biological, chemical, and physical phenomena. Although these super-bright sources can enhance the imaging for many applications from drug development to chip-making, their massive size and scarcity make them impractical for most laboratories, hospitals, and businesses.
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Photonic Crystals Imitate Gravitational Effects on Light
Researchers from Tohoku University, in collaboration with other institutions including Osaka University, set out to determine whether lattice distortion in photonic crystals could produce the effects of pseudogravity. They experimentally demonstrated pseudogravity in the terahertz range.
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Synthesized Nanoresonators Harness Power of IR for Optics and Electronics
To make high-quality crystals that resonate strongly with IR light, researchers at Stanford University and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) developed a bottom-up, self-assembly approach to synthesize nanostructures with crystal qualities consistent with bulk single crystals. The ultrathin nanostructures act as ultrahigh-quality, nanoscale resonators of lattice vibrations at IR frequencies, to provide a high-performance, low-loss platform for IR applications.
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