A Perfect Trap for Light – Allows Light To Be Absorbed Perfectly in Photosynthesis and Photovoltaics
A “light trap” was developed in which a beam of light prevents itself from escaping. This allows light to be absorbed perfectly. If you want…
Lasers News
Smaller, Cheaper Lidar With New Chip-Based Beam Steering Device
Researchers have developed a new chip-based beam steering technology that provides a promising route to small, cost-effective, and high-performance lidar systems. Lidar, or light detection…
“Life-Like” Lasers Can Self-Organize, Adapt, and Cooperate Like Living Systems
Self-organizing lasers could lead to new materials for sensing, computing, light sources, and displays by mimicking features of living systems. Although many artificial materials have…
High-Power Laser Creates a Miniature Magnetosphere
First experimental measurement of pure electron outflows associated with magnetic reconnection driven by electron dynamics in laser-produced plasmas. Magnetic reconnections in laser-produced plasmas have been…
Eternal Matter Waves: Physicists Build Atom Laser That Can Stay On Forever
These days, imagining our everyday life without lasers is difficult. Lasers are used in printers, CD players, measuring devices, pointers, and so on. What makes…
Wave Mixing Laser- and X-Ray-Beams
Unlike fictional laser swords, real laser beams do not interact with each other when they cross – unless the beams meet within a suitable material…
Ultrafast Computers Are Coming: Laser Bursts Drive Fastest-Ever Logic Gates
Researchers have taken a decisive step toward creating ultrafast computers. A long-standing quest for science and technology has been to create electronics and information processing…
A Chilling Feat: Superconducting X-Ray Laser Reaches Operating Temperature Colder Than Outer Space
The new facility, LCLS-II, will soon sharpen our view of how nature works on ultrasmall, ultrafast scales, impacting everything from quantum devices to clean energy….
Laser Pulses for Ultrafast Signal Processing Could Make Computers a Million Times Faster
Simulating complex scientific models on the computer or processing large volumes of data such as editing video material takes considerable computing power and time. Researchers…
New Possibilities Discovered for Room-Temperature Superconductivity
Scientists discover that triggering superconductivity with a flash of light involves the same fundamental physics that are at work in the more stable states needed…
Scientists Use Light To Trigger Magnetism in Nonmagnetic Material
Lasers Trigger Magnetism in Atomically Thin Quantum Materials Researchers have discovered that light — in the form of a laser — can trigger a form…
Stronger Nuclear Fusion Materials May Be Possible Thanks to Photos of a Tiny Aluminum Crystal
A laser compressing an aluminum crystal provides a clearer view of a material’s plastic deformation, potentially leading to the design of stronger nuclear fusion materials…
Major Breakthrough for Efficient and High-Speed Spintronic Data Storage Devices
INRS researchers and international partners have succeeded in looking at spin inside rare earth materials, using a tabletop ultrafast soft-X-ray microscope, for the first time….
Researchers Create Strange Magnetic Particles With Laser Light – May Revolutionize Quantum Computers
Researcher at Lund University in Sweden have discovered a new way to create nano-sized magnetic particles using ultrafast laser light pulses. The revelation could pave…
First Integrated Laser on Lithium Niobate Chip Paves Way for High-Powered Telecommunication Systems
For all the recent advances in integrated lithium niobate photonic circuits — from frequency combs to frequency converters and modulators — one big component has…
Astronomers Detect Powerful “Galactic Space Laser” Five Billion Light Years From Earth
The MeerKAT telescope in South Africa has discovered a strong radio-wave laser known as a ‘megamaser.’ At nearly five billion light-years from Earth, the record-breaking…
How Fast Can Electronics Get? Quantum Physics Sets a Speed Limit
Semiconductor electronics is getting faster and faster — but at some point, physics no longer permits any increase. The shortest possible time scale of optoelectronic…
Scientists Discover New Form of Ice – May Be Common on Distant, Water-Rich Planets
Findings could have implications for our understanding of distant, water-rich planets. Researchers from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas have discovered a new form of…
