In concentrated solar power (CSP) systems, increasing the heat transfer fluid (HTF)
temperature leads to efficient operation by reducing energy loss from thermal receivers …

Adaptive optics has made significant advancement over the past decade, becoming the
essential technology in a wide variety of applications, particularly in the realm of quantum …

Ring resonators are one of the fundamental building blocks of advanced integrated optical
circuits. They find applications as nonlinear optical elements, filters, sensors, and switches …

Ultraviolet (UV) laser-induced damage from defects and impurities in conventional ground
and polished fused silica optics significantly hinders their application in high-power laser …

Today's most precise optical instruments--gravitational-wave interferometers and optical
atomic clocks--rely on long storage times for photons to realize their exquisite sensitivity …

Mesoscale simulations of woven composites using parameterized analytical geometries
offer a way to connect constituent material properties and their geometric arrangement to …

Structuring below diffraction limit is key to developing new laser processing technologies as
well as to understanding light‐induced processes on mesoscopic scales, notably self …

CO 2 laser heating of silica glass is used in many scientific and industrial applications.
Particularly, localized CO 2 laser heating of silica glass has demonstrated its ability to …

This Letter reports on the results of experiments aimed at obtaining high-quality super-
smooth surfaces by investigating the laser polishing of fused silica. A maximum reduction in …

This paper presents an inverse method for retrieving temperature-dependent effective
thermal conductivity of nanoporous silica aerogel composite at temperature ranging from …