As costs drop, lasers will replace cutting tools and medical equipment, Coherent CEO John Ambroseo predicts. Photos: Forty years of lasers at Coherent Michael Kanellos is editor at large at CNET ...

Lasers made in Camas are shooting down attack drones and getting ready for bigger jobs. The company's stock is soaring.

The recycled dots were then used to make lasers that worked just like the originals. The team plans to study how recycling affects the performance of the quantum dots over time and to develop ways to ...

Today, silicon photonic circuits connect server racks and play key roles in chemical sensors, biosensors, and LIDAR for ...

FOLSOM, Calif. – In a suburb of Sacramento, on the edge of a row of beige houses, a giant transmission tower shoots up into the blue summer sky. Jon Marmillo is looking up at a box sitting about 20 ...

The U.S. Navy has identified laser weapons as an urgent capability need, and after many years of development, it is moving rapidly to deploy advanced laser capabilities in the near term to the fleet.

People examine the work of a robotic weeder during a field day hosted by UC Davis. (Nic Coury / For The Times) The smell of burnt vegetation wafted through a lettuce field here one recent summer ...

The latest breakthrough in food tech is in: you can now make cold brew with lasers. The future is now, baby, and I’m happy to be here. Researchers from the technical chemistry department at the ...