Science Fiction or Science Fact: The Living Laser

The portrayal of lasers in comic books is typically light on the science and heavy on the fiction. Requiring the reader to suspend a great portion of their belief, there are a few instances in which the laser applications found between the pages are surprisingly true to life. Just one of these instances was Marvel‘s […]

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Mildred Dresselhaus and Magneto-Optics

Mildred Dresselhaus has proved herself to be a triple-threat since her entrance into the world of science. While being a physicist who has studied within the fields of material science and electrical engineering, she is most popular for her dedicated promotions for women within all science and engineering fields as well as for her own […]

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Registration Opens for LIA’s 2016 ICALEO Laser Research Conference

Registration is now open for the world’s premier platform for breakthrough laser solutions – Laser Institute of America (LIA)’s 2016 International Congress on Applications of Lasers & Electro-Optics (ICALEO®), to be held this year from Oct. 16-20 at the Sheraton® San Diego in San Diego, CA. ICALEO, which bears a 34 year history as the […]

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Weekly Wrap Up (May 30, 2016)

This week, we took a look at some of the current trends in manufacturing technology. Learn about pop culture’s surprising influence on the rise of 3D printing, other lesser known forms of additive manufacturing, as well as the factors that determine the “hottest” trends in manufacturing technologies, as told by the Advanced Manufacturing Workshop in […]

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Throwback Thursday: Developing The Handheld Laser Pointer

You have used them in presentations. You may reflect with a small sense of fondness, when you remember when they, rather than smartphone screens, were the biggest distraction in a movie theater. Since the 1980’s, the laser pointer has served as a productivity tool, prankster’s weapon-of-choice, and, most importantly, as a way to put laser […]

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