Exclusive to optics.org: Innovative intra-cavity design has produced a continuous-wave ruby laser, with other novel sources set to follow. A new source developed by Germany-based laser supplier ...

Hackers from all over Europe descended upon Rome last weekend for the Maker Faire that calls itself the “European Edition”. This three-day event is one of the largest Maker Faires in the world — they ...

[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUevWmUViJM&w=580] We were again pleased to find another person who attended Maker Faire just to show off the awesome and not ...

SHENZHEN, China--(BUSINESS WIRE)--RoboSense http://www.robosense.ai/, the leading provider of smart LiDAR sensor, today launched an 80 laser-beam 3D sensing LiDAR ...

12 May 2009 – Elliot Scientific is now taking advanced orders for the world's first Continuous Wave (CW) Diode Pumped Solid State (DPSS) laser that outputs at the significant 'ruby' wavelength of ...

Dr. Theodore Maiman studies a ruby crystal in the shape of a cube in a laser. Photo courtesy Bettman/Corbis View Slideshow __1960: __Physicist Theodore Maiman uses a synthetic-ruby crystal to create ...

Theodore Maiman, who built the first working laser, passed away on 5 May aged 79. Maiman made his breakthrough in 1960 by generating pulses of coherent light from a fingertip-sized lump of ruby ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This is a ruby crystal from Theodore ...

After nine months of intensive study, physicist Theodore Maiman was hoping for a flash of brilliance. It was spring 1960, and Maiman had been working with an assistant, Irnee D’Haenens, at the Hughes ...

IN a cavity laser system, oscillation by stimulated emission occurs when the gain is sufficient to overcome the total loss in the cavity. Cavity loss not only determines the threshold condition of ...