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A sketch of the imaging and holographic parts of a transient holographic microscope, including a pulse sequence, to illustrate the signal modulation method. By imaging the pinhole array at the sample position, a diffraction limited excitation spot array can be created, allowing for the simultaneous collection of transient data around 100 excitation spots.Femtosecond transient microscopy is an impo...

Recently, a start-up company co founded by Nobel laureate Hideyoshi Nakamura in San Francisco plans to commercialize nuclear fusion reactors using laser technology around 2030.Hideyoshi Nakamura won the 2014 Nobel Prize in Physics for inventing blue light-emitting diodes. He founded Blue Laser Fusion in Palo Alto, California in November 2022. Partners include Hiroaki Ohta, former CEO of drone manu...

Recently, the team led by Wang Rui from the Future Industry Research Center and the School of Engineering at Xihu University has made significant breakthroughs in the field of flexible stacked solar cells. They have successfully stacked perovskite and copper indium gallium selenide materials together, resulting in a photoelectric conversion efficiency of 23.4%. The related research paper was recen...

An interdisciplinary research group, including the German synchrotron radiation accelerator DESY and the Helmholtz Institute in Jena, Germany, reported that invisible gratings made of air not only are not damaged by lasers, but also maintain the original quality of the beam.The relevant research has been published in Nature Photonics under the title of "Acousto opt modulation of gigawatt scale las...

Leica Geosystems, a subsidiary of Hexagon, has developed Leica BLK2GO PULSE, its first person laser scanner, which combines LiDAR sensor technology with the original Leica BLK2GO shape. The technology will be released in early 2024.The scanner provides users with a fast, simple, and intuitive first person scanning method that can be controlled through a smartphone and provides real-time full color...