An international, Yale-led research team has taken a new approach to stabilizing high-power lasers: They’re fighting chaos with chaos. There has been a rapidly growing…
Yale scientists have created a new type of silicon laser that uses sound waves to amplify light. A study about the discovery appears in the…
Scientists reveal that laser-produced plasma can provide insight into bursts of subatomic particles that occur in deep space. Such findings could help scientists understand cosmic…
Engineers at UCLA have developed a new technique to control the polarization state of a laser that could lead to a new class of powerful,…
Although most people have never heard of laser frequency combs, they have become essential to advancing important light-based research and have been instrumental to the…
Rapid creation of multi-layered, self-assembled nanoscale grids with fully customizable shapes and compositions is possible using new technique developed by scientists at Brookhaven Lab. Down…
Making use of the unique physical properties of bosons, Stanford physicists have created an electrically driven polariton laser that uses less power than conventional lasers…
By replacing the single monolithic rod amplifier that typically equips lasers with a network of fiber amplifiers and telecommunication components, scientists aim to harness the…
UCLA physicists have demonstrated that an electron beam can be accelerated by a laser in free space. Accelerating a free electron with a laser has…
Most lasers are made up of silicon wafers using expensive processes, similar to the ones used to make microprocessors. Scientists have designed a new way…
Scientists have been able to generate the world’s fastest laser pulse with a beam shot for 67 attoseconds (0.000000000000000067 seconds). This breaks the previous record…
Max Planck Institute scientists examined the transmission behavior of photonic crystal fibers when they were twisted, finding that the transmission of certain wavelengths becomes much…
Nearing completion, the laser system of the Berkeley Lab Laser Accelerator delivered something that no other laser system has achieved, a petawatt of power in…
Physicists have generated the first laser-like beams of X-rays from a tabletop device, opening the door for devices that may be used by scientists to…
By using the Linac Coherent Light Source at Stanford to analyzed tiny protein crystals, scientists demonstrated the potential of free-electron lasers for obtaining the structures…
A recent low energy test with SLAC’s Linac Coherent Light Source proved that the X-ray laser could dip more deeply into the so-called “water window,”…
Northrop Grumman successfully tested their next-generation high-energy, solid-state laser in the company’s Redondo Beach laboratory. The laser burned through the critical components of a target…
Physicists from Yale University have engineered a “random laser” which they believe will improve both processing time and the clarity of the images from devices…