New Design for “Optical Ruler” Could Revolutionize Clocks, Telescopes, Telecommunications
Just as a meter stick with hundreds of tick marks can be used to measure distances with great precision, a device known as a laser…
Just as a meter stick with hundreds of tick marks can be used to measure distances with great precision, a device known as a laser…
For half a millennium, people have tried to enhance human vision by technical means. While the human eye is capable of recognizing features over a…
The beautiful phenomenon allows for new and exciting research opportunities in the fields of Optics and Optofluidics A team of researchers from the Technion –…
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…
Physicists see surprisingly strong light, high heat from nanogaps between plasmonic electrodes. Seeing light emerge from a nanoscale experiment didn’t come as a big surprise…
Advance poised to enable cost-effective space-based global quantum network for secure communications and more. In a critical step toward creating a global quantum communications network,…
Gravitational wave detectors are extremely complex instruments of precision measurement. They use interference as the physical mechanism to measure passing gravitational waves (GWs)—ripples in space-time—from…
Imaging Magnetic Instabilities Using Laser Accelerated Protons An international team of researchers highlighted two variants of Weibel’s instability. The magnetic structures resulting from a plasma…
To the general public, lasers heat objects. And generally, that would be correct. But lasers also show promise to do quite the opposite — to…
Trapped Rydberg ions can be the next step towards scaling up quantum computers to sizes where they can be practically usable, a new study in…
Electronic properties of condensed matter are often determined by an intricate competition between kinetic energy that aims to overlap and delocalize electronic wave functions across…
Ultracold atoms trapped in appropriately prepared optical traps can arrange themselves in surprisingly complex, hitherto unobserved structures, according to scientists from the Institute of Nuclear…
New soliton laser pulses deliver high energy in a trillionth of a second. By revisiting a simple type of laser, scientists have discovered a way…
Plasmon nanojet: Physicists implement efficient mechanism for subwavelength focusing of plasmons. Russian and Danish researchers have made a first-ever experimental observation of a plasmon nanojet….
Using Turbulence to Generate Frequency Combs From Small Ring Lasers We’ve all experienced turbulent air and water, but did you know light can be turbulent…
Combined theoretical and experimental work unveils a novel mechanism through which criticality emerges in quasiperiodic structures — a finding that provides unique insight into the…
Researchers at Lehigh’s Center for Photonics and Nanoelectronics use new phase-locking technique to achieve record-high output power for terahertz lasers, report the highest radiative efficiency…
The invention of chirped pulse amplification technique by Strickland and Mourou in 1985 has boosted the peak power of ultrashort laser pulses to an unprecedented…