Taara started as a Google X moonshot spinoff aimed at connecting rural villages in sub-Saharan Africa with beams of light.

A new publication in Opto-Electronic Advances overviews advances in femtosecond laser direct writing of fiber Bragg gratings in multicore fibers. In recent years, multicore optical fibers have ...

Cladding light stripper (CLS) technology addresses a major challenge in scaling thulium fiber lasers beyond their long-standing 1 kW power limit. A new self-adapting CLS design distributes heat along ...

The development of cheaper, more powerful lasers has always been a cause for excitement among hackers, and fiber lasers are no exception. One of the newer tools they’ve enabled is the laser welder, ...

Researchers in Israel have created a microscopic optical device that could simplify high-power laser ...

Researchers have built a microscopic 3D-printed optical device that funnels light from 37 separate multimode semiconductor lasers into a single optical fiber, merging 222 distinct spatial modes; the ...

The tenth annual Directed Energy Systems conference, organized by Defence IQ and held in London earlier this month, heard almost two dozen presentations on all of the key areas in the development of ...

The long term trend of the industry developing ever more fiber lasers in different designs and powers continues at this year's show. Fujikura's Single Mode CW fiber laser. One week to go until LASER ...

Laser cutting and engraving technologies have become essential tools across a wide variety of different industries, from manufacturing, art and small businesses. These technologies use laser beams to ...