Photonics Frontiers: Battlefield Lasers Ruggedizing high-energy lasers for the battlefield
PHOTONIC-CRYSTAL LASERS Photonic crystals make nanocavity lasers
Ultrafast lasers make ultraprecise tools
Novel fiber lasers offer new capabilities
Nonlethal lasers deter attacks and warn away noncombatants
New designs expand capabilities of quantum-cascade lasers
New options for visible solid-state and diode lasers
Higher powers and shorter pulses from thin-disk lasers
New materials expand capabilities of solid-state lasers
Quantum cascade lasers prepare to compete for terahertz applications
Diode pumping enables a new approach to alkali-vapor lasers
Fiber lasers take off in diverse directions
Surface plasmons and nanolasers: A big push for very small lasers
Materials are a tough challenge for ultraviolet diode lasers