TOKYO — With an eye on the nascent writable-disk market, two laser vendors are aiming to couple high performance with low power consumption in red lasers with nearly circular beams. Sanyo Electric Co.

Three dimensional helical chiral metamaterials resulted in effective manipulation of circularly polarized light in the visible infrared for advanced nanophotonics. Their potentialities are severely ...

Scientists from the University of Warsaw, the Military University of Technology, Poland, and the University of Southampton, UK, have developed a new type of tunable microlaser emitting two beams. “The ...

Scientists from the University of Warsaw, the Military University of Technology and the University of Southampton presented a new type of tunable microlaser emitting two beams. – These beams are ...

Metasurfaces offer an innovative approach to controlling light. Courtesy: P Genevet Vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers (VCSELs) have emerged as a highly versatile light source over the past 30 ...

We’ve seen a few minimalist robots in our time, but very few compare to [Thomas Rinsma]’s amazingly agile BEAM robot. It’s absolutely fascinating to watch this little robot crawl around on its ...