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Meeri Kim | 14 May 2020
A team of researchers from Spain has developed a low-cost selective laser sintering method that allows colored inks to be used. read more
Patricia Daukantas | 13 May 2020
Refreshing acoustic waves with light and prolonging their coherence could enable long phonon-based light storage. read more
OPN Staff | 13 May 2020
A scientist studying nanophotonics and plasmonics talks about exotic lasers that operate at subwavelength scales—and that could open up new applications in biomedicine. read more
Stewart Wills | 11 May 2020
Multinational team uses entanglement as a resource for overcoming background noise in low-power microwave detection. read more
OPN Staff | 11 May 2020
The UCSB professor, who will give a plenary talk at CLEO 2020, discusses the increasing horizons for laser integration on silicon as the laser itself enters its seventh decade. read more
Molly Moser | 08 May 2020
Scientists have drawn on data from NASA’s ICESat and ICESat-2 space laser missions to estimate Earth’s ice mass changes over the past 16 years. read more
OPN Staff | 08 May 2020
A pioneer in VCSELs, the semiconductor lasers now found in smartphones, talks with OPN about their history and future. read more
William G. Schulz | 07 May 2020
Researchers report record efficiencies after etching textured structures on photoelectrodes—a potential avenue for solar-to-hydrogen energy conversion. read more
OPN Staff | 06 May 2020
A physicist at the Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, China, discusses how increases in average and peak laser power are driving forward both pure and applied science. read more
Edwin Cartlidge | 06 May 2020
Optical cavities could allow the world’s leading observatories to reduce noise at low frequencies, as well as high. read more