Every new generation of phone display, television screen and solar panel is the result of precision optics experiments, which use lasers and other light sources to measure the optical properties of ...

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This opens the door to a new way of doing science, one in which humans are not the sole architects of experimentation. Artificial intelligence has begun to tackle a task once thought to be uniquely ...

Since it was first demonstrated in the 1960s, spontaneous parametric down-conversion (SPDC) has been at the center of many quantum optics experiments that test the fundamental laws of physics in ...

Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have developed a robotic laboratory that can build, align and run optics experiments on its own. The system can pick up lenses and mirrors ...

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.. 12 June 2009. The Newport Corp. Spectra-Physics Lasers Division in Mountain View, Calif., is introducing an ultrafast laser amplifier system with optimized dual outputs for ...

Newly developed hardware for making high-transmission optical fiber in zero gravity has arrived at the International Space Station (ISS). Launched last week on board a Cygnus cargo ship carrying more ...