Additive Manufacturing (AM) is booming. According to a recent report from Persistence Market Research, the sector is currently on pace to grow by more than 22% this year and is expected to double in ...

Chinese researcher Yuan Shenghfu, August 4 in Acta Optica Sinica, A has made a new laser cooling system using active structures and optimized gas flow to remove heat while also reducing turbulence and ...

Optical tweezers are a versatile way to trap and manipulate particles and untethered biological cells, exploiting the intensity gradients that can be created by focused lasers. One problem, however, ...

Laser cooling, in which carefully arranged laser beams can reduce the momentum of an atom to the point where the it can be individually caught by a magnetic field, is an important technology for ...

Sadhvikas Addamane, a materials scientist at Sandia National Laboratories, gazes into a viewport of a molecular beam epitaxy reactor, highly specialized equipment Sandia will use to build experimental ...

Although the optical system will have to be 10 times smaller to laser-cool atoms on a chip, the experiment "is proof of principle that it can be done," McGehee added. "Ultimately, making the light ...