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Just to add to your comment, even so that the energy in each pulse is less than 100 billion times less than the energy from bright sunlight emitted in a second, it is still signifi…

Sphere Ultrafast Photonics - http://www.sphere-photonics.com - Porto - Portugal - ONSITE - Full-time We are a growing company in the field of ultrafast optics, developing diagnosti…

FWiW you can have 3 or even more frequencies in a laser beam coherent with each other, i.e. where te phase of the waves is locked together. This allows you to interfere the wavefor…

Actually supercontinuum lasers are not a recombination of different (incoherent) lasers but rather a 'processed' output from a single laser. You start with a high peak power laser …

For linux users, a very useful app: BasKet Note Pads. It's an organization tool, you write pages with notes, format text in those notes, dragndrop files into the page, and the kill…

I'm in Portugal so I can't comment on your experience. In here one can get it at any 'mom&pop' hardware store, which are more common than 'Home Depot' style stores.

There is also lots of information in this page http://members.optusnet.com.au/~eseychell/PCB/etching_CuCl/i... about an alternative to ferric cloride, acid cupric cloride. It is ea…

Portugal as well, Porto

I think that it is also worth noting that there is no free, independent implementation of LabVIEW. Being dependent on a vendor is not ideal, but hey, it's life. Anyway, there are s…

I think you have a good point that most people prefer to use the mouse, and commands that may seem obvious for some people may not be immediate for another. A clickety pointy UI wo…

I had similar ideas, but I think it is technically challenging to produce such transparent displays so close to the eye (i.e. integrated in eyeglasses, for example). The eye can't …