Like modern-day alchemists, metallurgists are constantly discovering and perfecting recipes for better alloys. A crucial step ...

Researchers at EPFL have developed a chip-scale ultrafast laser that performs on par with traditional tabletop femtosecond ...

University of Florida researchers are exploring how lasers could help astronauts build structures on the moon using materials ...

Researchers at EPFL - Swiss Federal Technology Institute of Lausanne have integrated an ultrafast femtosecond laser onto a ...

Chip-based ultrafast laser rivals tabletop systems, delivering powerful femtosecond pulses for sensing, spectroscopy, ...

Placed on a 1 CHF coin for scale, EPFL's photonic chip shows how a laser architecture once confined to table-top systems can be shrunk to the millimeter scale. Ultrafast lasers emit pulses lasting ...

In a statement announcing the breakthrough, team leader and EPFL Professor Tobias J. Kippenberg explained that ultrafast lasers emit extremely short pulses of light energy lasting only a few hundred ...

High school and college teachers are watching students write, in the classroom, in order to protect against the incursion of artificial intelligence. Credit...Video by Lauren Lancaster For The New ...

The FAA and the Defense Department have concluded that high-energy lasers used for targeting drones do not pose an "undue risk" to passenger aircraft. The agencies assert that proper safety controls ...

The U.S. government can now use a counterdrone laser along the southern border after the Pentagon and Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) agreed the weapons are safe, the two agencies announced ...

Abstract: This research reports a potential quasi-distributed thermal mapping optical sensing system for extreme temperatures, leveraging femtosecond (fs) laser inscribed single-mode fiber Bragg ...

This question has polarized much of the internet. On one hand, you have the ardent defenders who believe that AI writing speeds up their process, allowing them to quickly transform bullets of ...