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Corneal Imaging Methods (in vivo): A Crash Course
Corneal Imaging Methods (in vivo): A Crash Course
The cornea protects the eye from debris and germs from the environment and accounts for roughly two-thirds of the eye’s focusing power. Corneal imaging is critical in diagnosing and determining treatment ...
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 ...
Mode-Locked Lasers Improved With Graphene Technology
Mode-Locked Lasers Improved With Graphene Technology
Ever since graphene sheets were isolated from bulk graphite in 2004, two-dimensional materials have received an immense amount of interest for their unexpected and novel electronic and optical properties. ...
Ultrafast Lasers: High Power Precision in the Blink of an Eye
Ultrafast Lasers: High Power Precision in the Blink of an Eye
Introduction to Ultrafast Lasers The ultrafast laser is a category of laser that emits ultrashort light pulses with time spans of femtoseconds or picoseconds. To put this in perspective, ultrafast lasers ...
Ultrafast Amplifiers: What To Choose Among All Models
Ultrafast Amplifiers: What To Choose Among All Models
Ultrafast amplifiers are devices that can boost the pulse energy and the average powers of ultrashort pulse trains. While the prospect of applying ultrafast amplifiers on laser systems is appealing, it ...
Ultrafast pump-probe force microscopy
Ultrafast pump-probe force microscopy
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 ...