A research group led by 2014 Nobel laureate Hiroshi Amano at Nagoya University's Institute of Materials and Systems for Sustainability (IMaSS) in central Japan, in collaboration with Asahi Kasei ...

Ultraviolet-B (UV-B) semiconductor lasers are highly sought for medical, biotechnology, and precision manufacturing applications; however, previous UV-B laser diodes were limited to pulsed operation ...

Laser technology as we know it was first realized in 1951 when Charles Townes envisaged the concept of microwave amplification by stimulated emission of radiation (MASER) on a park bench in Washington ...

Chinese research team achieved a major breakthrough in continuous-wave vacuum ultraviolet (VUV) light sources, a longstanding bottleneck in the development of the nuclear clock, Science and Technology ...

A continuous Bose–Einstein condensate (BEC) has been produced by researchers in the Netherlands. Claimed as a first, the achievement has been sought for years and could lead to continuous-wave atom ...

Sometimes technology advances through wholesale change, like when cellular phone networks switched from analog to digital signals, and sometimes there is incremental change, like when CD players ...