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Traveling to other stars is a big human dream; however, it may be necessary to make something small for its achievement. According to a new study, the use of powerful laser systems to launch tiny spacecraft will significantly speed up interstellar flights, and therefore, it will take only one or two decades instead of thousands of years.
Physics and mathematics limit all the impulses. Also, the spacecraft should move incredibly fast to get there in a reasonable amount of time – but this requires a lot of fuel. And the necessary fuel loads will make the spacecraft too heavy.
However, some researchers have found a way out of the current situation – it is necessary to use a solar, laser system or microwave sail. Such a spacecraft will not require any fuel; but in order to provide the necessary acceleration to the big vehicle, people will have to develop a huge orbital laser module, and equip the spacecraft itself with a sail of Texas size.
At the present time, it is real to solve the problem with the help of tiny sailing spacecraft. Space laser system probes that have just one gram weight will be put into the Earth orbit, and then accelerated by a laser beam of high quality. Each probe will be equipped by tiny optical sensors and transmitters to communicate with the Earth. In addition, the system can be developed and improved gradually, since even the use of heavier probes or a less powerful laser beam will allow exploring several distant parts of the solar system.
The system requires the use of a laser module with a power of 50 to 70 gigawatts because it will enable to accelerate the probe with a meter sail to 26% of the speed of light in just ten minutes. Such a space probe will reach Mars orbit in 10 minutes, it will pass the Voyager-1 in three days and arrive in the Alpha Centauri star system in fifteen years.
In order for the idea realization, scientists will have to find a way to focus and very accurately direct the laser beam, as well as develop a tiny and light transmitter so that the space probes can transmit the received data to the Earth.
Nevertheless, it will take almost 10 years to wait for the first probe launch, but now the development is going according to plan and promises the realization of the most ambitious projects. The principle of the laser system operation is the following: the fiber laser will send a signal from Earth into its orbit. The laser beam is captured and converted into kinetic energy, which is used for movement. It sounds like science fiction, but it’s actually pretty simple.
The laser system modules will be installed at high mountains, and the power of the emitters will be about 100 gigawatts. At the same time, special devices will be launched into orbit that will “catch” the laser beam. Each of them was created specifically for this system and is very different from the conventional space sensor:

• its diameter is 13 ft;
• the device weight is not more than 0.001 pounds;
• the thickness of the device is only 400 atoms.

In fact, the devices are a light haze, so that they can accelerate to 200 million km per hour with the help of a laser system. The space probe’s first mission is the studying of Proxima Centauri, and even these ultralight laser module vehicles will be able to reach the destination point only after 25 years.
Light weight is needed not only for quick acceleration but in theory, it will help avoid collisions with asteroids. In this case, a small spacecraft has all the necessary equipment to obtain detailed information about the surrounding space. By the way, the very idea of mini-satellites has already been realized, and in 2017, Indian engineers tested mechanisms of 0,009 pounds, which successfully transmitted data to Earth for the first time.
At the same time, it is believed that future spacecraft will be able to use black holes as powerful launching platforms for studying stars that is one more laser application. A new study involves the emission of laser beams from a spacecraft along the edge of a black hole, which will bend around the latter because of its powerful gravity and return with added energy. After the fact, the spacecraft will “catch” these laser beams, thereby obtaining free energy, which can be used on its acceleration up to the speed of light.
Also, laser modules can be actively used for data transmission in space. So a group of physicists from Switzerland has developed a fiber laser that generates a super-hot laser beam that allows making holes in the clouds. Another laser beam containing the whole information can be directed into such holes.
The laser developed in Geneva allows transmitting 10000 times more information than by radio waves. Until today, the problem was in the clouds and fog that occasionally appeared in the atmosphere, stopped the laser beams and distorted data.
In this case, physicists have developed a laser system that heats the air in the right place to a temperature above 1500 degrees Celsius. As a result, a hole with a diameter of several centimeters is formed in the cloud.
A tunnel made by a laser beam can be maintained for some time while another beam transmits data. Scientists have tested their development on artificial clouds of 1.6 ft, but they contained 10000 times more water per square centimeter than natural clouds. The new method works even if the clouds are in motion.
It is quite possible that in the near future, such laser systems will allow communicating with possible aliens. Astrophysicists have calculated that hypothetical astronomers at Proxima Centravra b – an exoplanet that revolves around a star that is 4.2 years from Earth – would be able to pick up a signal sent using a two-megawatt laser module and an optical telescope with a 115 ft mirror.
The researchers calculated that if you used a powerful laser system and focused its beam using an optical telescope, the infrared radiation of the received signal could reach exoplanets, both rotating around our nearest Proxima Centauri and TRAPPIST-1 planets located at a distance of 40 light years from Earth. According to scientists, such laser beams can be a kind of signs, the light from which extends to distances up to 20 thousand light years.
For example, powerful laser systems developed for the military aims already have needful power. Scientists specify that it will be necessary to install the fiber laser system at high points like powerful telescopes to reduce the noise of the Earth’s atmosphere, which can interfere with signal transmission. It should also be noted that much more powerful telescopes should be used to transmit such a signal.
In addition to these potential fields of laser module application, they are used by NASA to study the ice layer of the Earth. Not so long ago, a NASA satellite was launched to Earth orbit from a California space center to study the state of the Earth’s ice cover.
The mission of an artificial satellite, called ICESat-2, is to provide more accurate information about the influence of global warming on the ice layer by a laser system.
As the name suggests, ICESat-2 is the second version of the satellite. The first spacecraft was launched in 2003 and it carried out a laser module test of the thickness of polar glaciers and sea ice from space for the first time. However, the mission faced technical problems, as a result of which observations were limited to only a couple of months in a year.
Since then, NASA has improved laser technology, making the observation process more reliable and focused. So, the laser beam is divided into six parts – three pairs, so we can see a larger surface of the ice, as well as evaluate the surface slope. The same ground surfaces will be measured every three months, giving us seasonal ice shots. It is possible to understand the processes associated with the reduction of ice in the polar regions due to the data.
The new laser system that weighs half a ton, is one of the largest surface observation tools ever created by NASA. It uses photon counting technology. The probe emits 10 thousand laser pulses per second and the laser module measures every 3 ft as it moves along the ice surface. Also, it should be mentioned that the laser beam cannot melt the ice from a height of 3280 ft. But on a dark night, it is possible to see a green mark in the sky – this is the ICESat-2 satellite flying.
Moreover, laser systems are a possible solution for cleaning space from debris. Thus, an international team of scientists is developing a laser system to deal with space debris. Fiber lasers are expected to protect the space station from collisions with dangerous alien elements. Nevertheless, according to analysts, physicists will have to overcome a number of technological difficulties. In particular, it will be necessary to find a balance between the power and energy intensity of the laser system.
Scientists are developing quite powerful laser modules that can change the orbits of small space debris – up to 0.3 ft in diameter. However, all the electric power generated by the ISS will be required to launch such a laser system, and it will completely leave the station without electricity.
Physicists confirm that space debris will dissolve under the influence of the laser module, forming a cloud of microscopic particles that pose no threat to the ISS covering or any other space equipment. At present, an impressive amount of garbage has accumulated in Earth orbit, but the situation is still far from critical.
At the moment, the scientists propose to use special flying satellites and even special nets that will catch space debris. However, so far all these laser techniques are rather difficult to put into practice. The use of a laser technology that will dissolve parts of space debris seems to be the most realistic.
Despite the fact that laser technology still needs to be developed, it is considered to be very promising. Optromix is a fast-growing manufacturer of fiber lasers, optical fiber sensors, and optical monitoring systems. The company offers fast turnkey solutions and creates sophisticated fiber laser systems for special purposes. Optromix uses only its own technologies based on the advanced research work and patents of international R&D team and develops a broad variety of high beam quality fiber lasers. If you have any questions or would like to buy a fiber laser system, please contact us at info@optromix.com
 

Nowadays ultrafast fiber laser systems have reached a new level in modern technologies. And recently a German company announced that they have developed a new fiber laser that had a perfect laser beam quality, high process technology and could be bought with average powers of more than 100 W from stock.
At the end of the 2018th, a team of researchers has demonstrated their latest record that was a fiber laser system with 3.5 kW average power and a pulse duration of 430 fs after amplification. Moreover, the laser system has an automated spatial and temporal alignment of the interferometric amplification channels.
It should be noted that the novel fiber laser technology is based on an all-fiber amplifier that employs a coherent combination of four separately amplified laser beams. Herewith, this fiber laser creates pulses of 1047 nm wavelengths and a repetition rate of 80 MHz. Then these pulses are divided into 4 separate laser beams and go into the amplifier.
The point lies in the process of amplification after which the fiber laser beam looks really nice. Nevertheless, the researchers are planning to increase the system up to 10 kW later this year. At the same time, the laser systems have numerous advantages such as:

• Efficient heat dissipation;
• Excellent output laser beam quality;
• Compactness and ruggedness;
• Reduced mode distortion;
• Reliable and low-cost technology;
• Fiber lasers ensure accurate cutting and a quite high edge quality;
• Laser modules can cut complex shapes in a short time;
• Laser systems meet all the manufacturing requirements.

All the mentioned benefits make fiber lasers an ideal solution for a lot of application fields, for example, precision engineering, including fiber laser micromachining, high precision sheet metal profiling, cutting transparent materials, marking components for traceability, gas and wind detection, oil and gas exploitation, pipeline integrity monitoring, perimeter security, and medicine, etc.
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According to a group of researchers from Austria, recently they have found a way to make a novel laser system which light source would become a perfect light absorber, to be precise, so-called anti-laser module. Herewith, the researchers confirm that their device could suggest laser applications in mobile and medical areas.

The concept of the laser system is time-reversed, and the principle of laser technology operation is based on the process of random scattering. Also, the device operates with the help of computer simulations and it was already tested and showed highly promising results.
Moreover, the researchers believe that their laser development is able to open up new possibilities for all fields in science and engineering where wave phenomena play a crucial role. The thing is that complex scattered waves are all around us and can find a practical application in random laser systems.
Thus, this laser technology is based on a disordered medium with a random internal structure that allows catching light and creating a complex unique laser field, but only if it is equipped with energy. However, the laser module experiment demonstrates that the process can also be reversed in time.
Consequently, the researchers have succeeded to develop the laser system that emits special waves depending on its inner composition. Herein, this laser module is able to operate as a perfect absorber that completely diffuses an incoming wave with the right wavelength and spatial pattern.
It should be noted that anti-laser systems have only been used in one-dimensional structures before while laser light was directed from two opposite sides. The new technique is much more general, very prospective, and the most important fact is that it offers a wider range of laser applications.
Also, it is possible to find a certain wavefront for every object that absorbs waves, no matter the level of strength. Nevertheless, it does not mean that the laser absorber should be necessary strong enough to assimilate every incoming wave. Instead of it, the anti-laser module uses incident wave splits into many other waves that then cover and interfere with each other in such manner that none of the laser waves can quit the end. That is why it is possible to use even weak laser absorber.
Today the structure of the random anti-laser system includes a microwave chamber with a central absorbing antenna, surrounded by a random arrangement of Teflon-coated cylinders that diffuse microwaves and provide a complicated wave pattern. Possibly, in the near future, it will be real to use the laser technology, for example, the antenna in your cell phone for personal application as well as in medicine when it is necessary to deliver wave energy to a very specific point.
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Now scientists are developing a laser beam of high quality that will be able to pass through opaque materials without diffusion. The thing is that usually, light scatters or reflects when you shine it through a fog, consequently, the laser beam spreads out. Nevertheless, there are cases when it is highly important to pass a laser system beam through a material without any scattering.
Thus, a group of scientists is working on fine-tuning waves to make them able to pass through different materials such as white paint or even human skin that can be potentially applied in medicine or communication. The main goal of the development to make the laser beam more concentrated preventing the light from spreading.
It took a lot of time and energy to find out how to send laser system beams, either of particles such as electrons or of light, through opaque materials. Nonetheless, recent tests have shown that it is real to make their idea come true. For the aim, it is necessary to use specially tailored laser beams that are able to send energy through opaque materials by traveling in just the right way, herein, some waves in the laser system beams neutralize while others combine upon entering the medium.
The scientists want to create not only the light that is able to pass the material through but to produce a focused laser beam of high quality on the other side of the material. Recently they made a simplified model of the opaque material that was a slide covered with white paint and calculated how the front of the light wave should be shaped using a method of trial and error.
After the calculations, the scientists used a spatial light modulator to create the correct wavefront, shone it onto the slide covered with white paint, and successfully generated outputs that were thinner than a traditional laser system beam of high quality would produce.
After testing the laser beam remained comparatively concentrated even after passing through the white slide. However, now it is highly necessary to adapt the laser module beam to each material the researchers would like to pass it through, but it takes a lot of time.
Also, scientists believe that it is possible to combine the laser technology with machine learning to find about the system quickly in several measurements and use it to define the correct wavefront. Herewith, they plan to develop an even more concentrated laser beam on the other side of the material.
It should be noted that today it is possible to shine laser systems through walls, however, only very specific types of walls and probably the list of walls will increase very soon.
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The laser system is a universal technology that is ideally fit for numerous areas of application. The metal cutting industry is the number one user of laser technologies for material cut with lasers. Today such industries use about 100 types of different metals worldwide and practically all types of lasers are able to manage with them.
Laser technology allows cutting metal easily and effectively. Moreover, new lasers meet growing demand from customers, enable to reduce costs and provide quality and safety of the highest level. Recently, direct diode laser or DDL was developed and its discovery has greatly changed the method of cutting.
The thing is that the direct diode laser system demonstrates impressing results in the metal laser cutter industry. In spite of the fact that not everyone knows what it actually is, the principle of its operation, however, the laser technology has quickly gained such popularity.
It should be mentioned that the operation principle of the direct diode laser is based on the use of diodes directly. Herewith, the system is being changed by the doped fiber system that could be found in fiber laser technologies. This improvement makes the DDL system more cost-effective.
Moreover, this laser system has other benefits such as:

• high level of reliability;
• compact size;
• remarkably premium laser beam quality.

High level of laser beam quality is provided by programmed loading and unloading materials into storage. In addition, for the metal cutting industry speed plays a crucial role because most of the laser cutting machines are made of more lightweight aluminum and new diode laser provides it.
DDL system uses diodes directly with the aim of the metal cutting process. Herein, the diode laser removes the middle process of different other laser cutters. Moreover, the main application of the diode laser system is the use only for cutting thin materials thanks to low electrical power.
Nevertheless, the latest improvements allow increasing the electrical power up to 8000 watts, and consequently, it is possible to cut through heavier and thicker metals. Thus, the direct diode laser is considered to be more advantageous than disc, CO2, and fiber laser system.
It should be mentioned that the DDL system is able to cut metal 15% faster for almost all applications, and offers a 30% faster-cutting speed over aluminum materials. However, now fiber laser systems remain the most popular and cheap way for the metal cutting industry.
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Recently, a research team from the USA has advanced laser system technology ten years into the future. The fact is that the research team unified lasers and silicon and developed mode-locked quantum dot laser module on silicon. Herewith, it is planned that the laser system will offer new fields of application.
The mode-locked quantum dot laser module on silicon has numerous advantages that include:

• a significant increase in data transmission capacity of centers, telecommunications companies, and network hardware products;
• high stability;
• low noise;
• energy efficiency;
• compact size;
• low-cost;
• a tiny, micron-sized light source;
• the ability to emit a broad range of light wavelengths.

It should be mentioned that nowadays the level of data traffic continues growing worldwide that is why even the largest technology companies have to set their sights on the hardware and laser modules of 2024 and beyond to stay competitive. Thus, the developed mode-locked quantum dot laser system is their only solution to the problem.
The novel mode-locked fiber laser has an output of 20 gigahertz, a proven 4.1 terabit-per-second transmission capacity that is higher than today’s best commercial standard for data transmission. In addition, the researchers used the technique of wavelength-division-multiplexing or WDM that allows transmitting numerous parallel signals over a single optical fiber using different wavelengths.
Moreover, the laser system technology makes streaming and rapid data transmission real and can be used in different fields of application, such as commerce, communications, entertainment etc. By the way, the mode-locked quantum dot laser module on silicon is a low phase noise laser due to coherent optical combs with fixed-channel spacing.
The laser system on silicon is considered to be the most advantageous because it has all the benefits of the electronic properties of several semiconductor materials for performance and function, in addition to silicon’s own well-known optical and manufacturing benefits. Also,  the research team confirms that the laser device will soon become the norm in telecommunications and data processing.
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Now human lifestyle requires saving time and money that is why it is highly necessary to make some improvements in technologies, and laser technology is not an exclusion because includes numerous fields of application. This is the reason why a group of researchers from NASA has decided to make an experiment with femtosecond laser module.
Femtosecond laser systems are ultrafast fiber lasers that operate at wavelengths from 1.0 μm and 1.5 μm. Herewith, femtosecond fiber lasers, like other types of fiber lasers, offer lower cost of ownership, eco-friendly technology, high beam quality. These qualities make femtosecond fiber lasers highly desirable for multiple fields of application.
NASA team consider that this ultrafast fiber laser that is able to emit pulses of light 100 millionths of a nanosecond in duration could significantly advance the way of NASA manufacture and finally allow assembling the device components made of different materials.
The experiment demonstrates that the femtosecond laser system has managed to weld glass to copper and glass to glass, as well as drill hair-sized pinholes in different materials. Nowadays the research group plans to test the fiber laser’s abilities with more exotic types of glass such as sapphire and Zerodur, and metals such as titanium, Invar, Kovar, and aluminum that are ideally fit for spaceflight tools.
The main aim of the femtosecond laser’s test is to find out whether the laser module is able to weld larger pieces of these materials or not. The researchers consider that very soon the laser technology will demonstrate its efficiency at adhering windows onto laser housings and optics to metal mounts, among other applications.
Moreover, they believe that there are a lot of new ways of laser technology’s applications in fabricating and packaging photonic integrated circuits, for uses ranging from communications and data centers to optical sensors.
It should be noted that femtosecond laser systems have a lot of benefits that include:

• The waveguide medium eliminates the need for precise alignment and makes long cavity length possible;
• Fiber lasers offer high beam quality, which is extremely valuable for many areas of fiber laser applications;
• Fiber gain media are efficient and can adequate levels of power for bioimaging;
• Fiber lasers are naturally suitable for integration with endoscopic instruments.

Thus, the NASA team is sure that they will be able to adapt this emerging technology to a wide variety of flight applications.
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Recently researchers from Massachusetts have developed a novel fiber laser system that has a compact size and is able to emit light with a high level of spectral purity. Moreover, the fiber laser’s light remains unchanged to environmental conditions. The researchers confirm that the novel laser system will be useful for future scientific applications that include:

• clock improvement for Global Positioning systems or GPS;
• determination of space gravitational waves;
• quantum computing.

It should be mentioned that the fiber laser system has a lot of advantages such as small size, the ability to emit exceptionally pure light and unresponsiveness to the environment. Also, laser technology allows creating an environmentally stable, narrow, portable linewidth laser due to the fiber used for the laser module making.
In spite of the fact that even if a laser system is developed to emit purely in one wavelength, there are still environmental influences that cause noise changing light frequency. Nevertheless, the researchers using a novel technique have developed an optical fiber laser with a spectral linewidth narrower than ever achieved by a fiber or semiconductor laser.
The main goal of the development is the replacement of ultra-low expansion (ULE) cavity lasers with compact one that isn’t sensitive to environmental noise. The principle of laser module operation includes the use of a short loop of optical fiber configured as a ring resonator.
Since fiber laser systems are portable and solid, and also have the immunity to environmental changes, the researchers made the combination of fiber laser advantages with nonlinear optical effect to develop a laser with a linewidth of just 20 hertz comparing to other laser systems which linewidths achieve from 1000 to 10,000 hertz, and semiconductor laser’s linewidth is around 1 million hertz.
The development of laser systems can be used for the creation of a new generation of optical atomic clocks used for GPS-enabled devices. Thus, such clocks will provide more accurate pinpoint of the arrival time of the signal and improve the location accuracy of today’s GPS systems.
Moreover, this device will be quite useful for interferometers like the ones used by the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory or LIGO with the aim of detection of gravitational waves coming from colliding black holes or collapsing stars.  Herewith, the fiber laser is ideally fit for laboratory use.
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Today in the era of new technologies it is very hard to imagine human life without the use of laser systems. Fiber lasers became an integral part of modern equipment and the society in whole. The fields of their application continue to enlarge and include not only physics, medicine or other natural sciences, but also security.
Recently a group of researchers from Massachusetts has developed laser system-based technique of transmitting different audio signals and even recorded speech at a conversational volume to a person without any receiver equipment. The principle of the laser module device operation is based on the photoacoustic effect.
Thus, now it is possible to transmit sound selectively due to the use of water vapor in the air with the aim of light absorption and then the creation of a sound. Nevertheless, the use of the laser system device is not limited by only wet conditions, but it is ideal for relatively dry conditions because the air has always a little amount of water, especially around people.
Also, the researchers found that it is not required to have a lot of water due to a laser wavelength that is highly absorbed by water. Herewith, it should be mentioned that the stronger absorption leads to more sound. Moreover, the laser system device creates an audio signal that is heard at a certain distance from the transmitter enabling it to be localized to a certain person.
The basis for the laser module development was a method called dynamic photoacoustic spectroscopy for chemical detection because sweeping a laser beam at the speed of sound could make chemical detection more precise. The main particularity of the method is that the audio signal can only be heard at a certain distance from the transmitter.
It means that an individual can get the message rather than a group of people crossed the light from the laser beam. However, the researchers confirm that there is a possibility to transmit the message to multiple individuals. They also demonstrated the transmitting distance that is more than 2.5 meters away at 60 decibels using the laser system sweeping technique. Herewith, in the future, the distance could be longer.
It should be mentioned that the conventional photoacoustic technique provides sound with higher accuracy, whereas the laser beam sweeping provides sound with louder audio. The possibility to transmit highly targeted audio signals over the air is considered to be quite useful for warning individuals of a dangerous situation, for example, during terrorist attacks. Moreover, it is the first system that uses lasers systems that are totally safe for the eyes and skin to localize an audible signal to a particular person.
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The theme of space exploration remains highly actual not only for companies specialized in it but also for ordinary enterprises. Space holds numerous secrets that are extremely hard to uncover and this is the main reason why people are striving to be closer to it, and consequently, they build observatories with large telescopes in them.
Today the peak of Mount Wilson, California,  is an important place for scientific researches and the residence for numerous observatories. Moreover, it has the world’s largest optical interferometer CHARA. Now two more observatories are being built there and the Facebook company plans to use them for their first laser communication systems whose main goal is the connection to orbital satellites.
The company is working on an experimental satellite Athena that can provide efficient, fixed and mobile broadband in areas with bad services. Facebook will utilize laser system technology both in Athena satellite and their future spacecraft.
It should be mentioned that the Facebook company has long been interested in laser modules and communication systems in space because fiber laser systems allow transmitting more data at high rates, and moreover, their signals are protected from interference or hacking despite clouds.
Thus, laser satellite installation includes the observatories with the aim of laser beam transmission into the atmosphere or a satellite to lock on to. This laser system installation will be useful for space mission applications, for satellite and aerospace industries and Facebook’s mission of connectivity.
Laser system communication allows connecting the unconnected and it is highly effective for people in hard-to-reach places to provide the Internet for them. Also, the Internet satellite includes near-infrared lasers that are eye-safe and have higher data rates than a traditional radio-frequency satellite in spite of the fact that the fiber laser system is compact, has light weight and high power.
In fact, this type of satellite will be especially interesting for new companies because laser communication frequencies are not yet regulated. The use of laser system satellite means that it won’t be necessary to track rapidly moving objects, for example, drones or satellites in low Earth orbit.
Nevertheless, even laser beams of high quality spread out and become weaker in thirty-six thousand kilometers travel long from a geosynchronous orbit. Thus, this technology still needs to be developed but is considered to be very promising.
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