Cladding light stripper (CLS) technology addresses a major challenge in scaling thulium fiber lasers beyond their long-standing 1 kW power limit. A new self-adapting CLS design distributes heat along ...

Emerging fiber laser technologies are expected to make significant market progress in sensing and healthcare, while innovations in laser welding and 3D printing mean that material processing remains ...

The use of lasers to route data streams through free air will find its place, but it's not likely to become a mainstream optical-networking technology. Free-space optics technology has been ...