A focused beam of green light has transformed 150 plastic beads into a functional mirror. The feat is the first step toward an ambitious goal: deploying lasers in space to assemble a cloud of dustlike ...

Protecting drones from high-power lasers with reflective or thermic coatings is fails to protect. It is a known countermeasure that's been researched since ...

Berkeley — Engineers at the University of California, Berkeley, have created a new high-performance mirror that could dramatically improve the design and efficiency of the next generation of devices ...

A high reflectivity mirror, also known as a supermirror, is a dielectric mirror that has been carefully designed to provide optimal reflectivity while minimizing any scatter and absorption effects.

Two football-size mirrors stored in a spotless warehouse in Sunnyvale reflect the fortunes of Lockheed Martin Space Systems Co. and Silicon Valley's aerospace and defense sector. Coated with special ...

Silicon micromirrors can guide laser beams at extremely high speeds, allowing operators to dose heat input to workpieces with absolute precision. But to date they have not been robust enough to be ...

Short-pulse lasers are often used in time-resolved measurements with pulse lengths in the fs range. They are also used in material processing. The special properties of interaction between short ...

Using lasers for fluorescence applications requires special consideration of the optical path. This special attention centers around the coherent nature of the light, the small beam diameter, the ...