California-based Oclaro Inc. has agreed to acquire the local Spectra-Physics operation of Newport Corp. as part of an asset-exchange deal. Oclaro plans to consolidate some of Spectra-Physics' laser ...

It is my pleasure to announce that the new head of WPI’s Department of Physics (PH) is Lyubov Titova, an accomplished scholar and teacher who leads the Ultrafast THz and Optical Spectroscopy Lab at ...

A spectrometer that directly detects the vibrational “fingerprint” of molecules offers a sensitive new way of deducing a material’s chemical make-up. The device, which was developed by researchers in ...

• alphaScan™ high energies and ease-of-use ideal for tumor detection and cancer research Spectra-Physics®, a Newport Corporation brand, introduces alphaScan, a compact integrated optical-parametric ...

Conventional spontaneous Raman spectroscopy of interfacial molecules typically requires plasmonic or electronic enhancement, ...

Bachana Lomsadze received his Bachelor’s degree in physics from Tbilisi State University (Georgia) in 2007 and a Ph.D. in Physics from Kansas State University (KSU) in 2012. At KSU he worked in the ...

How it works: the top frequency comb is passed through a sample of interest and then into a beamsplitter. The bottom frequency comb operates at a slightly different pulse repetition frequency and is ...

Newport agrees to buy Spectra-Physics for $300 million, creating one of the largest firms in the photonics industry. Newport, US, has signed a definitive agreement to purchase Spectra-Physics, the ...

Proteins containing disordered domains perform many important cellular functions. My lab currently has two main projects, one to dissect the role of tubulin's C-terminal tail in microtubule structure ...