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

Granular detail: Femtosecond lasers were used to produce this multiphoton microscopy image of lung tissue. (Source: M L Groot, VU Amsterdam/Flash Pathology BV) Fibre-based femtosecond lasers are ...

Scientists in the Riccio College of Engineering at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and the University of California ...

Suggested Citation: "6 Applications." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2018. Opportunities in Intense Ultrafast Lasers: Reaching for the ...

GOLETA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--SLD Laser, a world leader in commercialization of visible laser-based light sources and blue laser products, has demonstrated ultra-compact, high power, high ...

Let it shine A new design for a solar laser seeks to minimize thermal lensing (Courtesy: Shutterstock/Johnny-ka) A new design for a laser that is powered by sunlight ...

Thariq Shanavas is a fourth-year physics PhD student who works in the Gopinath Lab in electrical, computer and energy engineering. He was recently first author on a paper in the journal APL Photonics ...

Last year marked the 270th anniversary of Benjamin Franklin’s lightning rod — but it’s more than a relic of history. The Franklin rod remains in use today because the simple design exploits some ...

Terahertz (THz) radiation, situated between the microwave and infrared regions of the electromagnetic spectrum, has emerged as a pivotal tool in plasma physics research. The generation of intense, ...

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has awarded the 2018 Nobel Prize in Physics to Arthur Ashkin, Donna Strickland, and Gérard Mourou for “groundbreaking inventions in the field of laser physics.” ...

STOCKHOLM/LONDON (Reuters) - A trio of American, French and Canadian scientists won the 2018 Nobel Prize for Physics on Tuesday for breakthroughs in laser technology that have turned light beams into ...