UF engineers, backed by DARPA and NASA, are perfecting laser-forming techniques that let metal sheets fold themselves into ...

Analysis has been made of a fiber-optic passive loop resonator, the heart of the gyroscope. The performance characteristics are heavily dependent on the resonator parameters, such as coupling ...

A team of researchers has developed a novel method for using cholesteric liquid crystals in optical microcavities. The ...

AFR's 3 kW Laser Cavity Component integrates a high power (kW) laser combiner and a fiber bragg grating in a compact package that reduces fiber splicing, improves electro-optical efficiency, and ...

Scientists can now snap ultra-powerful laser pulses in one shot. RAVEN reveals distortions instantly, unlocking breakthroughs ...

The Mamyshev oscillator (MO) is a type of fiber laser capable of producing high-energy laser pulses at a tunable repetition ...

A 2-watt laser, no brighter than a nightlight, has just delivered data at 1 gigabit per second from a satellite 36,000 ...