In a first for the field, researchers from The Grainger College of Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign ...

Researchers at the University of Illinois have pulled off a laser first: they built a new kind of eye-safe laser that works ...

Quantum sensors have become important tools in low-energy particle physics. Michael Doser explores opportunities to exploit ...

This paper presents a near-infrared (NIR) laser scanner developed using a microelectromechanical system (MEMS). The scanner leverages the transmitted diffraction beam of an in-plane rotational grating ...

We compare narrow and wide laser beams in a free-space optical (FSO) communications system for high-speed train communications and analyze the tradeoffs among the received power, coverage area, and ...

For decades, scientists have tried to peer deep inside the human brain using beams of harmless near-infrared light. The technique, called functional near-infrared spectroscopy, or fNIRS, has become a ...

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