Scientists have taken lasers beyond light and into the realm of sound, creating a breakthrough “phonon laser” that ...

When lasers were invented in the 1960s, they opened new avenues for scientific discovery and everyday applications, from ...

Tailoring light is much like tailoring cloth, cutting and snipping to turn a bland fabric into one with some desired pattern. In the case of light, the tailoring is usually done in the spatial degrees ...

A new law in laser physics could make eye surgery simpler New soliton laser pulses deliver high energy in a trillionth of a second Date: May 26, 2020 Source: University of Sydney Summary: Revisiting ...

A beam of electrons crossed just a few millimeters of plasma, then helped trigger an effect that usually belongs to massive ...

Every year, the most prestigious prize in the most fundamental of the natural sciences is given out: the Nobel Prize in Physics. Some recent prizes have literally shook our understanding of the ...

Some of the greatest mysteries in cosmology revolve around antimatter, and it’s hard to study because it’s rare and hard to produce in the lab. Now a team of physicists has outlined a relatively ...

Spectra-Physics®, a Newport Corporation brand, introduces the Excelsior One continuous-wave (CW) lasers series. The new line of ultraviolet (UV), visible, and near-infrared (NIR) CW lasers integrate ...