Rare gas lasers utilise noble gases such as argon, xenon and krypton to generate coherent light through the excitation of metastable atomic states. Unlike conventional semiconductor or solid-state ...

Scientists in the Plasma Division at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) are building on a multi-year research effort that demonstrated the potential of an advanced laser technology that could ...

Acetylene-filled fiber laser produces 3.1µm-3.2µm wavelengths, long-sought by photonics R&D groups. Two different forms of hollow fiber used in mid-IR laser experiments. Researchers at Bath University ...

Terrorists have just laced the water supply of a major metropolis with a chemical so lethal that only small amounts are needed to kill thousands of people. But the chemical never reaches its targets.

ORLANDO, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Laser Photonics Corporation (LPC), a leading global industrial developer of laser systems for cleaning and other material processing, today showcased the significant ...

An excimer laser's high-power ultraviolet emission enables applications in research, micromanufacturing and biomedicine. Rainer Paetzel and Ruediger Hack provide an introduction to the technology and ...

Nearly everyone, even those outsides the sciences, has encountered at one point or another a “laser”— Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation. Lasers produce narrow, uniform beams of ...

The field of applications and instrumentation that utilize laser sources is quickly advancing. For example, confocal and multiphoton microscopy, Raman spectroscopy, and flow cytometry all make use of ...