As they step into adulthood, many say the holy month has become less about endurance and more about intention.

"It slowly dawned on me after I started my position at the University of Illinois that this was the perfect career for me," Rohit Bhargava says.

A compact fiber-based system has been developed to compress mid-infrared laser pulses to 187 femtoseconds using low input power. By integrating a holmium-doped ZBLAN photonic crystal fiber within a ...

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