Researchers at Heriot-Watt University have improved a fibre optic endoscope in a demonstrated of laser-enhanced chemical etching, and developed a way to significantly speed up such 3d patterning of ...

A new beam pattern devised by University of Rochester researchers could bring unprecedented sharpness to ultrasound and radar images, burn precise holes in manufactured materials at a nano scale -- ...

Barredo and team report their use of precision optical-engineering methods to sort atoms into arbitrary 3D patterns. Barredo et al. extend their previously reported method for 2D atom sorting to three ...