I was a fairly big laser nerd before I met Rick Hutton, but after becoming friends with THAT mega-nerd, I have begun to really get into lasers and the whole use of coherent light. I think one of the highlights of 2011 so far was hitting Photonics West with Ocean Optics and SeaChanger and walking [...]
Read More Coherent light, HeNe, InLight Gobos, JimOnLight.com, Laser, Laser Surplus Sales, Rick HuttonRemember that scene in the Jody Foster movie called Contact when they got all of those drawings of "the machine?" There was a part of the movie where Ellie realized that the images were encoded somehow, and the key to encoding them was by looking at them in three dimensions. Remember that minute little detail? [...]
Read More anisotropic, calcite, Graham Gibson, index of refraction, isotropic, Laser, Miles J. Padgett, photons, research, Robert W. Boyd, ruby, science, sodium chloride, Sonja Franke-ArnoldWhoa – a laser story that doesn't involve someone mounting a man-killing laser on top of some kind of vehicle?! SAY IT AIN'T SO! Professor Douglas Stone and his team of Yale scientists have discovered a way to get material to nearly completely absorb laser light. They've developed this thing – more of a material, [...]
Read More absorption, anti-laser, coherent, Laser, Professor A. Douglas Stone, R+D, Yale