Finding out what the universe is actually made of remains one of the ultimate ...

Experiments at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's National Ignition Facility (NIF) require breathtaking precision. Each ...

Darwin Quiroz is exploring new frontiers in miniature lasers with major biomedical applications. When Quiroz first started working with optics as an undergraduate, he was developing atomic ...

GaN-based vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers (VCSELs) are promising for displays, sensing and optical communication, but ...

Inertia Enterprises, the commercial fusion energy company, today announced the formation of its Science and Technology Advisory Board (STAB). The newly formed advisory board is an independent group of ...

Stanford researchers have built titanium-sapphire (Ti:Sa) lasers that are 10,000 times smaller than previous ones, and have also fit them onto a chip. Until now, such lasers have cost upwards of ...

While the world continues to fixate on AI, there are still plenty of high performance computing workloads that need doing and a speedup to any one part can have a big impact, whether it be ...

When lasers were invented in the 1960s, they opened new avenues for scientific discovery and everyday applications from scanners at the grocery store to corrective eye surgery. Conventional lasers ...

Last year marked the 270th anniversary of Benjamin Franklin’s lightning rod — but it’s more than a relic of history. The Franklin rod remains in use today because the simple design exploits some ...