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EPFL’s chip-scale laser fires femtosecond pulses on par with bench instruments that fill a whole table, a shrink that could push ultrafast optics into everyday devices

A team led by EPFL has built a laser on a single photonic chip that fires femtosecond pulses with energy and speed that, ...

Ultrafast laser shrinks to chip scale, potentially lowering costs for diagnostics and atomic clocks

Ultrafast lasers emit pulses lasting only a few hundred femtoseconds (quadrillionths of a second). These flashes of light ...
Science Daily

After 20 years, scientists finally shrink a powerful laser onto a chip

Researchers at EPFL have developed a chip-scale ultrafast laser that performs on par with traditional tabletop femtosecond ...
Nanowerk

An ultrafast laser on a chip

Chip-based ultrafast laser rivals tabletop systems, delivering powerful femtosecond pulses for sensing, spectroscopy, ...

Scientists have finally packed a laboratory-class ultrafast laser onto a tiny photonic chip.

Placed on a 1 CHF coin for scale, EPFL’s photonic chip shows how a laser architecture once confined to table-top systems can ...
The Debrief

“A Holy Grail of Integrated Photonics”: EPFL Researchers Reveal Tiny-Yet-Powerful Ultrafast Laser on a Chip

Scientists have revealed a downscaled, lab-sized, high-energy ultrafast laser to the size of a matchhead, enabling futuristic ...
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A ultrafast laser on a chip

Placed on a 1 CHF coin for scale, EPFL's photonic chip shows how a laser architecture once confined to table-top systems can be shrunk to the millimeter scale. Ultrafast lasers emit pulses lasting ...