Femtosecond laser pulses have emerged as a powerful tool for nanostructuring materials, particularly glass. This technology allows for the creation of intricate nanostructures that can be used in ...

The operating regime of the femtosecond laser in GHz-bursts instead of repetitive single pulses enables interaction with the glass material ... and crack-free holes with glossy inner walls.

When researchers at the Galatea laboratory in Switzerland set out to create a femtosecond laser in glass they weren’t certain it was going to work. To be precise, their goal was to create a ...

Andreas Stingl, CEO of Austrian company Femtolasers, talks to Nadya Anscombe about the market for femtosecond lasers and their wide variety of applications. How mature is the market for ...

According to a proof-of-concept study conducted by researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), the use of femtosecond lasers to form glass-to-glass ...

Femtosecond lasers were developed to help fulfill these requirements and have changed the field. The capabilities of the technology include not only the creation of corneal flaps for laser ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Researchers at the University of Southampton have created a hard drive made out of glass that they say can store 360 terabytes of data for an almost infinite amount ...

High intensity femtosecond laser pulses have been driving electrons to very high energies reaching million and billion electron volts over length scales that are 100–1,000 times shorter than ...