The FC10 (10-mm aperture) and FC20 (20-mm aperture) laser fiber collimators provide a centered beam with a clean Gaussian profile of less than 1/10-wave wavefront ...

In the last few decades, only temporal modes have been considered for mode-locked fiber lasers using single-mode fibers. Mode-locked single-mode fiber lasers offer advantages due to their high-gain ...

Tesla has been working on a technology consisting of laser beams installed on vehicles, and other products, to automatically clean debris off the windshield of its cars. No, I am not kidding. If you ...

The NASA Artemis missions aim to send astronauts to the moon by 2024. But to succeed, they’ll need to solve big problems caused by some tiny particles: dust. Horányi and colleagues have discovered a ...

Right now, NASA estimates, more than 500,000 pieces of debris are clogging Earth's orbit, slinging around the planet at 17,500 mph. The danger to spacecraft and satellites is obvious, even if you ...

As supervisor of the cleaning of France's 13th-century Amiens cathedral, Didier Groux has earned the title Monsieur Clean. His secret? Not more ammonia, but lasers. Old-fashioned scrubbing gets rid of ...