General Information Mica is a naturally occurring birefringent biaxial crystal. It is cleaved into wafers of precisely controlled thickness to produce optical retarders at user-specified wavelengths. Due ...

Graphene (a form of fullerene) is a nanomaterial that has been attracting significant interest as a potential game changer for various applications. Energy storage, flexible transparent displays and ...

High-performance platform for 400G test combines a new DAC-based 56 Gbaud PAM4 generator with the highest-bandwidth coherent transmitter and optical modulation analyzer available Chestnut Ridge, NY, ...

How to improve the quality of laser marking on glass? Perhaps this is your first week of starting a laser engraving business or you have been using your laser quite proficiently for some time now, and ...

An Acousto-Optic tunable filter (AOTF) is a pass-band transmission filter, which exploits the acousto-optic interaction inside an anisotropic medium. AOTF is generally fabricated in Tellurium Dioxide, ...

Ultrafast pump-probe force microscopy constitutes a non-optical detection technique with nanoscale resolution that pushes pump-probe sensitivities close to the realm of single molecule studies. Optical ...

Stewart Wills Scientists in the United Kingdom and Japan have fabricated a glass chip with an optical waveguide circuit that’s capable of implementing a universal set of linear optical transformations—and ...

Laser World of Photonics India is coming up with its 4th edition from 09–11 September 2015 in Delhi.The trade fair is an important gateway for the growth and use of lasers and photonics in the different ...

Researchers demonstrate a promising new approach to manufacturing a crucial form of graphene. By Mike Orcutt on August 13, 2015 High-quality graphene nanoribbons can now be grown directly on a conventional ...

Sunlight can be brutal. It wears down even the strongest structures, including rooftops and naval ships, and it heats up metal slides and bleachers until they’re too hot to use. To fend off damage and heat ...