The photonic based technology boom of the late 1990s was driven by the need to replace expensive, lag-prone and limited satellite telecom links. These links were based on high frequency radio waves ...

These optical scanners comprise two separate, perpendicular planar mirrors that rotate independently. They are positioned in a manner wherein laser light bouncing off the first mirror (axis 1) ...

Principles of supersymmetry have been used to boost the performance of an array of solid-state lasers. The work was led by Mercedeh Khajavikhan at the University of Central Florida in the US. Her team ...

Researchers have developed a new chip-based beam steering technology that provides a promising route to small, cost-effective and high-performance lidar systems. Lidar, which uses laser pulses to ...

The Lumotive LCM can steer the reflected laser. Image source: Lumotive. Cumbersome and expensive spinning sensors have been a hallmark of the lidar systems employed by many prototype autonomous ...

US NSF funding Weidong Zhou's group investigating beam steering device based on VCSELs. Weidong Zhou, UTA professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering. A professor at the University of Texas ...

Doctors insert an endoscope with an emergent laser beam at its head end into the gastrointestinal (GI) tract to inspect and even perform microsurgery such as treating and excising lesions. They ...