Technology news

Vytran demonstrates 100W from coherently combined fibre lasers

19 February 2010
Vytran has coherently combined two, three, and four fibre lasers to produce more than 100W of single transverse mode output at around one micron from an all-fibre, all-passive configuration

Fraunhofer IPMS achieves HYPOLED milestone

4 February 2010
Fraunhofer IPMS has achieved an important milestone within the European project HYPOLED with its digital VGA full-colour OLED microdisplay

Scientists achieve 1 Megajoule laser shot

2 February 2010
Scientists at the National Ignition Facility have successfully delivered more than 1 Megajoule of laser energy to a target in a few billionths of a second, demonstrating the target drive conditions required to achieve fusion ignition

ALICE collides beams to achieve a UK X-ray first

News image26 November 2009
Physicists working on an R&D prototype for the next generation of accelerator-based light sources ALICE (Accelerators and Lasers in Combined Experiments) at STFC Daresbury Laboratory have successfully collided electrons and a powerful laser beam to produce short-pulsed X-rays

Diamond lasers for use in Raman

24 November 2009
Australian scientists from Macquarie University and the Defence Science Technology Organisation have demonstrated an efficient laser using diamond optical elements supplied by synthetic diamond manufacturer, Element Six.