Beams of high energy electrons are crucial for fundamental science and myriad applications and technologies, such as imaging, semiconductor lithography, material science and medical therapies.

Andreas Stingl, CEO of Austrian company Femtolasers, talks to Nadya Anscombe about the market for femtosecond lasers and their wide variety of applications. How mature is the market for ...

When researchers at the Galatea laboratory in Switzerland set out to create a femtosecond laser in glass they weren’t certain it was going to work. To be precise, their goal was to create a ...

The use of femtosecond laser pulses is essential for initiating ... fabricated using electron-beam lithography and evaporation of metal films. So far, the fabrication of high-quality metallic ...

Certain steps of traditional cataract surgery performed by phacoemulsification may soon be performed with increasing frequency by the femtosecond laser. Since the introduction of the femtosecond ...