Taara started as a Google X moonshot spinoff aimed at connecting rural villages in sub-Saharan Africa with beams of light.

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 ...

The development of cheaper, more powerful lasers has always been a cause for excitement among hackers, and fiber lasers are no exception. One of the newer tools they’ve enabled is the laser welder, ...

Most lasers have operated along similar physical principles: a small, precisely dimensioned, closed cavity containing specific materials that will get incoming photons excited enough to band together ...

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 ...

The long term trend of the industry developing ever more fiber lasers in different designs and powers continues at this year's show. Fujikura's Single Mode CW fiber laser. One week to go until LASER ...