Since their invention in the early 1990s by Adolf Giesen, then at the University of Stuttgart, Germany, thin-disk lasers have moved firmly into the mainstream of industrial materials processing. The ...

Semiconductors can generate laser light in all colors except one. But new techniques for growing laser diodes could soon make brilliant full-spectrum displays a reality On a rainy Saturday morning in ...

Creating intricately-shaped plastic parts with a 3D printer is no longer a challenging process, but an everyday technology. However this scenario is quite different when the material is pure copper: ...

Alongside carbon dioxide, methane is a key driver of global warming. To detect and monitor the climate pollutants in the atmosphere precisely, scientists at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of ...

Ever wonder why projector systems and televisions doesn’t use laser illumination? It isn’t for safety reasons, and it isn’t for efficiency reasons—laser diodes have efficiencies ranging from 30 to 50 ...

How innovations in visibility, usability, and smart sensing are changing who uses tools—and how. For centuries, measurement tools have been essential to architecture, engineering, construction, real ...

This article offers an overview of spinning disk confocal laser microscopy and explains why it is more beneficial than confocal microscopy. In traditional widefield optical microscopy, the sample is ...