Surface microcracks introduced during machining processes such as grinding, can reduce the glass's intrinsic strength by creating stress concentration points. These defects not only compromise the ...

Laser-driven 'mirrors' capable of reflecting or manipulating light have been produced. The 'mirrors' exist for only a fragment of time but could help to reduce the size of ultra-high power lasers, ...

Engineers at the University of California, Berkeley, have created mirrors that pack the same 99.9% reflectivity as current distributed Bragg reflector (DBR) mirrors, but do so in packages 20 times ...

Researchers at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have made a breakthrough in laser technology by using machine learning (ML) to help stabilize a ...

The ‘mirrors’ exist for only a fragment of time but could help to reduce the size of ultra-high power lasers, which currently occupy buildings the size of aircraft hangars, to university basement ...