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 ...

Laser power converters can help devices remain connected and be powered with a simple optical fiber over long distances, even in the harshest environments.

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

Carbon fibers have promising applications in the efficient transmission of electric power with less resource consumption. Laser graphitization of the mesophase pitch-based carbon fiber (MPCF) was ...

The candidate pool for engineered materials that can help enable tomorrow's cutting-edge optical technologies—such as lasers, ...

Mode-locked lasers generate short pulses of intense coherent light. Just like a guitar string, laser cavities can support many different frequencies, or resonant modes. A train of picosecond or ...

A team of scientists has managed to 3D print microscopic structures that are designed to dampen sounds for specific ...

Lasers have widespread applications as a light source in a variety of fields, including manufacturing, medicine, high-speed ...

This laser exhibits over 3 orders of magnitude reduction in frequency noise at 10 Hz–1 MHz compared to the free-running laser and an instantaneous line width about 20 Hz in a nonclean experimental ...

The National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT, President: TOKUDA Hideyuki Ph.D.), in collaboration with Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation (Sony), has developed the ...

In this paper, the dynamics of Q-switching-modulation instability (QS-MI) and mode locking (ML) coexistence is explored in spatiotemporal mode-locked fiber lasers (STML-FLs). By transverse spatial ...