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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 ...
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 ...
The Food and Drug Administration just approved a new laser that promises to be the fastest hair removal laser on the market. It's so quick doctors can remove large areas of hair during your lunch hour ...
The CRESCENDO, as the laser has been named, will be officially launched and demonstrated on the KLASTECH booth (# 359, Hall B1) at June’s Laser World of Photonics Exhibition in Munich. Initially ...
The military has been striving to build a laser powerful enough to make an effective weapon literally since the first ruby laser was demonstrated back in 1960. Now General Atomics is working with ...
Light's shadow: Researchers showed that a laser beam can sometimes act like a solid object and cast a shadow that is visible to the naked eye. In the picture, the shadow appears as the horizontal line ...
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 ...
As part of a comprehensive investigation of the dispersion of chimney gases from a power station, we have been much concerned with studying the behaviour of the buoyant plume during its initial rise.