Femtosecond laser pulses have revolutionised the fabrication of intricate nanostructures within glass, opening avenues for advanced photonic devices and data storage solutions. By utilising ultrashort ...

Scientists show that it is possible to make a femtosecond laser that fits in the palm of one's hand using a glass substrate. Is it possible to make a femtosecond laser entirely out of glass? That's ...

Just as an antenna interacts with radio waves, light interacts with metallic nanostructures. Therefore, understanding how a ...

Researchers demonstrate that femtosecond laser-induced transient Pauli blocking can achieve ultrafast, broadband optical switching from visible to near-infrared. (Nanowerk News) Recent decades have ...

Glass nanostructures etched using high-intensity femtosecond laser pulses promise to keep vast quantities of data safe for billions of years, describe Peter Kazansky, Ausra Cerkauskaite and Rokas ...

Fiber sensing scientists from Shenzhen University have developed an encrypted fiber optic tag that can be used for all-optical labeling and recognition of optical transmission channels such as access ...

After decades of research and development, humanity finally has a data storage medium that will outlast us.… The 5D Memory Crystal stores data by using tiny voxels – 3D pixels – in fused silica glass, ...

A research team figured out a way to write data onto wafers of glass using lasers, and that glass can hold the data for 10,000 years.

This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. In late 2024 we did a piece on developments in optical digital storage and expectations for ...

Is it possible to make a femtosecond laser entirely out of glass? That’s the rabbit hole that Yves Bellouard, head of EPFL’s Galatea Laboratory, went down after years of spending hours – and hours – ...