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Laser Wire Strippers: Modern Technology and its Benefits
Laser Wire Strippers: Modern Technology and its Benefits
Wire stripping said simply, is the removal of insulation covering electrically conducting wires. But what is the most efficient and cost-effective way to go about doing it? Laser Wire Strippers are a ...
Neural Imaging with Visible Light: Intrinsic Signal
Neural Imaging with Visible Light: Intrinsic Signal
Recent advances in neural imaging (or neuroimaging) techniques may pave the way for better treatment of neurological diseases such as Parkinson’s disease and next-generation applications in fields ...
Metamaterial Applications Revisited: Optical and Acoustic
Metamaterial Applications Revisited: Optical and Acoustic
We have previously discussed metamaterials in an overview regarding their uses in lens design and optical cloaking, but the metamaterial realm stretches much further than that. Today, let us dive into ...
Using LEDs to Test G-Force Tolerance in Air Force Pilots
Using LEDs to Test G-Force Tolerance in Air Force Pilots
G-Force  and Training Pilots of Highly Maneuverable Aircraft Gravitational force equivalent or g-force describes the acceleration of a body relative to the acceleration of gravity at the Earth’s ...
Surface Plasmon Resonance: Smartphone Senses Temperature
Surface Plasmon Resonance: Smartphone Senses Temperature
Introducing Surface Plasmon Resonance Surface plasmon resonance (SPR) is an optical detection technique commonly used to study biomolecular interactions. SPR is highly-sensitive to changes in the ...
Semiconductor Nanowire Photodetectors and Lasers
Semiconductor Nanowire Photodetectors and Lasers
Nanowires are truly one-dimensional structures that are long in one direction and short on the lateral dimension. This dimensional reduction gives rise to interesting new phenomena such as quantized ...
Raman Lasers: Non-Linear Light Generation for Broadband Applications
Raman Lasers: Non-Linear Light Generation for Broadband Applications
Raman scattering phenomenon can be used to engineer broadband tunable lasers and to generate a broad band of frequencies in the IR spectrum. These light sources are instrumental for probing and detecting ...
Ultrafast Light Pulses: The Next Step of Information Transfer?
Ultrafast Light Pulses: The Next Step of Information Transfer?
As we have noted several times previously on our blog, Moore’s law, the phenomenon of exponential growth of computing power due to ever more compact transistor technology, can only continue so far ...
Innovative Electric Components for Millimeter Wave Communication
Innovative Electric Components for Millimeter Wave Communication
The millimeter-wave (MMW) region of the electromagnetic spectrum is a region of frequency band between 30 gigahertz and 300 gigahertz, and it is called the Extremely High Frequency range. These high ...
Diode Laser Array: Delivering High Power Outputs by Combining Stacks
Diode Laser Array: Delivering High Power Outputs by Combining Stacks
High power lasers are used in the industry routinely for cutting, drilling, welding and micromachining materials. They have also found applications in medicine where tissue needs to be cut or heated. The ...