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For the last ten to fifteen years, optical drives have been fading out of existence. There’s little reason to have them around anymore unless you are serious about archiving data …read more Continue reading Laser Engraver Uses All of the DVD Drive
Making lasers smaller and more capable of rapidly alternating between frequencies, while remaining within a narrow band, is an essential part of bringing down the cost of technologies such as …read more Continue reading Fast Adjustable Lasers Using Lithium Niobate Integrated Photonics
There are many applications for particle accelerators, even outside research facilities, but for the longest time they have been large, cumbersome machines, not to mention very expensive to operate. Here …read more Continue reading Accelerating Electrons to TeV Levels Using Curved Laser Beams
For those who wish to go beyond through-hole construction on perfboard for their circuit boards, a printed circuit board is usually the next step up. Allowing for things like surface-mount …read more Continue reading DIY Laser For Ablating Metal
As the question of how to make a laser fusion reactor practical rises, scientists at the University of Rochester’s Laboratory for Laser Energetics (LLE) have come up with a way for fusion lasers to essentially manufacture their own fuel pellets.Continu… Continue reading Laser fusion reactors could make their own fuel pellets in a flash
All I wanted to do was get rid of my glasses, but when my local laser eye surgery clinic recommended some odd-sounding advanced Presbyond treatment developed by Zeiss, I said sure, if that’s what the cool kids are getting. Here’s what’s happened.Contin… Continue reading Review: Presbyond surgery gave my eyes two different focal points
Self-driving cars often use LiDAR — think of it as radar using light beams. One limitation of existing systems is they need some method of scanning the light source around, …read more Continue reading No Moving Parts LiDAR
Here’s an exercise for you: type “crystals” into your favorite search engine and see what you get. If you’re anything like us, you’ll get a bunch of pseudoscientific posts about …read more Continue reading Growing Simple Crystals for Non-Linear Optics Experiments
Silicon has reigned supreme in electronics for the better part of a century, and now a new version might help extend its use into the future. Engineers at North Carolina State University (NCSU) have discovered a brand new form of the material called Q-… Continue reading Meet Q-silicon, a new magnetic material for spintronic quantum computers
As the worst of the COVID-19 pandemic appears to be behind us, offices have reopened but staff may find themselves adopting a hybrid working approach rather than a 9 to 5 behind the office desk. Epson has developed the Pro EX11000 Full HD laser project… Continue reading Epson gets down to business with “lights on” Full HD laser projector