Researchers from Osaka University propose a concept for next-generation ultra-intense lasers, possibly increasing the current record from 10 Petawatts to 500 Petawatts. Ultra-intense lasers with…
Researchers invent a novel vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser, the workhorses of datacenters and optical sensors. Summary Researchers at the George Washington University have developed a new…
A simple method developed at KAUST uses laser beams to create graphene electrodes that have better performance than those produced through older methods. Electrodes consisting…
The instrument could bring powerful sensing and imaging capabilities out of the lab and into hospitals, airports, or other settings. Researchers at MIT and the…
Researchers at Institut national de la recherche scientifique (INRS) have discovered a cost-effective way to tune the spectrum of a laser to the infrared, a…
Researchers from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology and King’s College London cleared the obstacle that had prevented the creation of electrically driven nanolasers…
Milestone towards first practical applications of this innovative accelerator technology. A team of researchers at DESY has reached an important milestone on the road to…
New design overcomes long-standing LED efficiency problem — and can transform into a laser to boot. A new design for light-emitting diodes (LEDs) developed by…
The speed of a message traveling in these packets is no longer affected by traveling through different materials of different densities. University of Central Florida…
Ultrashort laser pulses induce unusual sound waves via a structural instability in a material. RIKEN physicists have initiated unusual sound waves in a flake using…
Merging methodologies from physics and chemistry for the optical spectroscopy of superheavy elements. Superheavy elements are intriguing nuclear and atomic quantum systems that challenge experimental…
Institute of Optics research sets record for shortest laser pulse for newly developed technology, work that has important applications in engineering and biomedicine. University of…
The most sophisticated laser communication network ever designed has gained its second satellite. The European Data Relay System (EDRS) was built to accelerate the flow…
The researchers used powerful laser flashes to irradiate thin, films of crystalline materials. These laser pulses drove crystal electrons into a fast wiggling motion. As…
Portable System Boosts Laser Precision, at Room Temperature Physicists at MIT have designed a quantum “light squeezer” that reduces quantum noise in an incoming laser…
New ground-breaking research from the University of Surrey could change the way scientists understand and describe lasers – establishing a new relationship between classical and…
An international team of researchers has demonstrated an innovative technique for increasing the intensity of lasers. In a paper that made the cover of the…
To the general public, lasers heat objects. And generally, that would be correct. But lasers also show promise to do quite the opposite — to…