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Plasma mirrors capable of withstanding the intensity of powerful lasers are being designed through an emerging machine ...

Chinese scientists have pushed solid-state vacuum ultraviolet laser technology to a new milestone by ...

Xcimer Energy announced today that its researchers and collaborators have removed a major scientific bottleneck to commercializing laser fusion energy by experimentally validating a long-overlooked ...

Laser cooling and optical refrigeration are advanced techniques that utilise the interaction of laser light with matter to remove thermal energy from solids. Based on the principles of anti-Stokes ...

They combined optical tweezers with metasurfaces to trap more than 1,000 atoms, with the potential to capture hundreds of ...

Two slabs of boron nitride crystals are dynamically twisted with respect to each other. At certain angles, the incoming laser light can be efficiently converted to higher energy light, as a result of ...

A single, ultrafast laser pulse has flipped the polarity of a ferromagnet without first heating it to the brink of losing its magnetism, pointing to a new way to write data at extreme speeds with far ...

Three scientists on Tuesday won the Nobel Physics Prize for inventing optical lasers that have paved the way for advanced precision instruments used in corrective eye surgery and in industry, the jury ...

Caltech scientists have developed a way to guide light on silicon wafers with low signal loss approaching that of optical ...