Ultrafast laser shrinks to chip scale, potentially lowering costs for diagnostics and atomic clocks

Ultrafast lasers emit pulses lasting only a few hundred femtoseconds (quadrillionths of a second). These flashes of light ...
Science Daily

After 20 years, scientists finally shrink a powerful laser onto a chip

Researchers at EPFL have developed a chip-scale ultrafast laser that performs on par with traditional tabletop femtosecond ...
Nanowerk

An ultrafast laser on a chip

Chip-based ultrafast laser rivals tabletop systems, delivering powerful femtosecond pulses for sensing, spectroscopy, ...
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Scientists shrink lab-grade ultrafast laser on a single chip for making atomic clocks

Researchers at EPFL – Swiss Federal Technology Institute of Lausanne have integrated an ultrafast ...
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Scalable laser system enables optical atomic clocks for a wide range of applications

In the future, optical atomic clocks are expected to measure time 40,000 times more accurately than established atomic clocks. As part of the ISABELLA project, a consortium of industry and research ...
Optics

Novel laser makes atomic clock '100 times sharper'

JILA team has now built the super-radiant design based on strontium atoms that it first proposed four years ago. A team of researchers at a laboratory affiliated with the US National Institute of ...
Optics

Laser tweezers help stabilize atomic clock

A team of physicists in the US has reported that an atomic clock based on laser tweezers offers some "unique possibilities" for a future generation of super-precise timepieces. Demonstrated at JILA ...
Hackaday

A Laser Cut Word Clock

What is a word clock? A word clock is a clock that displays the time typographically that is also an interactive piece of art. Rather than buy one for $1500, [Buckeyeguy89] decided to build one as a ...
Hackaday

Word Clock Does The Job With Laser-Etched Acrylic

As far as telling the time, word clocks go out of their way to spell it out for you. As long as you know the language, they’re a stylish and effective way to get the message across. [Simon] built an ...