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By Janelle Shane On April 24, 2015 - 1 min read

Top: An electron microscope photo of long, straight waveguides (left) interrupted by an accidental scratch during fabrication, that turned the orderly stripes into naturalistic chaos. Each structure is about 0.5 microns high, or less than 1/200 the thickness of a typical human hair. Bottom: A photo on quite

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By Janelle Shane On April 24, 2015 - 1 min read

It turns out it’s surprisingly difficult to take a selfie in a welding helmet, as its safety shutter is triggered by the phone screen’s brightness. Squinting at a steep angle seems to do the trick.

Thursday February 19, 2015

By Janelle Shane On February 19, 2015 - 1 min read

Lab space heater is happy!

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By Janelle Shane On February 19, 2015 - 1 min read

Lab space heater is happy!

Wednesday February 18, 2015

By Janelle Shane On February 18, 2015 - 1 min read

It turns out sapphire is a very useful high-tech material, due to its hardness, insulating properties, optical transparency, and thermal conductivity. By starting with a tiny seed crystal, a huge column of highly pure crystal can be slowly drawn out of a molten vat, producing big honking specimens like

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By Janelle Shane On February 18, 2015 - 1 min read

It turns out sapphire is a very useful high-tech material, due to its hardness, insulating properties, optical transparency, and thermal conductivity. By starting with a tiny seed crystal, a huge column of highly pure crystal can be slowly drawn out of a molten vat, producing big honking specimens like

Tuesday February 17, 2015

By Janelle Shane On February 17, 2015 - 1 min read

But are these optics free range? And what about added sugar? Spotted at Photonics West 2015, at the OPCO Laboratory booth.

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By Janelle Shane On February 17, 2015 - 1 min read

But are these optics free range? And what about added sugar? Spotted at Photonics West 2015, at the OPCO Laboratory booth.

Tuesday February 03, 2015

By Janelle Shane On February 03, 2015 - 1 min read

This is the nanolaser equivalent of being smacked in the face with a slab of corrugated roofing during a tornado. There’s one step in making microscopic lasers where you have to peel away metal from much of the substrate, leaving behind pillar-shaped lasers surrounded by small metallic patches.

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By Janelle Shane On February 02, 2015 - 1 min read

This is the nanolaser equivalent of being smacked in the face with a slab of corrugated roofing during a tornado. There’s one step in making microscopic lasers where you have to peel away metal from much of the substrate, leaving behind pillar-shaped lasers surrounded by small metallic patches.

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