Students in the class ENGRI 1100: "Lasers and Photonics" engage in hands-on learning and build a laser for an assignment.

The development of cheaper, more powerful lasers has always been a cause for excitement among hackers, and fiber lasers are ...

A team of University of California, San Diego researchers has built the smallest room-temperature nanolaser to date, as well as an even more startling device: a highly efficient, “thresholdless” laser ...

Scientists working at microscopic scales have relied on a single dominant fabrication technique to ...

For many years, semiconductor lasers, tiny chips emitting light, have been the workhorse of the optical communications industry, sending data signals around the world via a web of optical fibres.

A nanophotonic mode-locked laser built on lithium niobate emits a beam of green laser light. Lasers have become relatively commonplace in everyday life, but they have many uses outside of providing ...