Two light beams from flashlights will not be influenced by each other when they cross. This is different for very intense laser pulses which meet…
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Synchronized laser pulses (red and blue) generate a burst of real and virtual charge carriers in graphene that are absorbed by gold metal to produce…
Credit: SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory The new facility, LCLS-II, will soon sharpen our view of how nature works on ultrasmall, ultrafast scales, impacting everything from…
Illustration of the gold-graphene structure in which electron waves from real and virtual charges are targeted with two ultrafast laser pulses. The combined effect can…
To study superconducting materials in their “normal,” non-superconducting state, scientists usually switch off superconductivity by exposing the material to a magnetic field, left. SLAC scientists…
An illustrative depiction of the light-induced ferromagnetism that the researchers observed in ultrathin sheets of tungsten diselenide and tungsten disulfide. Laser light, shown in yellow,…
A laser compressing an aluminum crystal provides a clearer view of a material’s plastic deformation, potentially leading to the design of stronger nuclear fusion materials…
Ultrafast magnetic scattering on ferrimagnets enabled by a bright Yb-based soft x-ray source, which made the cover of Optica. Credit: Ella Maru Studio INRS researchers…
Researchers Create Strange Magnetic Particles With Laser Light – May Revolutionize Quantum Computers
Artist’s concept of a magnetic skyrmion. Researcher at Lund University in Sweden have discovered a new way to create nano-sized magnetic particles using ultrafast laser…
Inside a galaxy merger are hydroxyl molecules, composed of one atom of hydrogen and one atom of oxygen. When one molecule absorbs a photon at…
An ultra short laser pulse (blue) creates free charge carriers, another pulse (red) accelerates them in opposite directions. Credit: TU Wien Semiconductor electronics is getting…
UNLV physicists pioneered a new laser-heating technique in a diamond anvil cell (pictured here) as part of their discovery of a new form of ice.…
Figure 1: High-harmonic generation creates short-wavelength light from a beam of powerful laser light with a longer wavelength. Credit: © 2022 RIKEN Interdisciplinary Theoretical and…
A research team led by the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR) has successfully tested the irradiation of tumors with laser protons for the first time. Credit: HZDR…
Researchers changed the atomic structure of a thermoelectric material in a unique way with pulses of intense laser light – a method with potential to…
Graphene charge carriers lying on different energetic levels represented by the Dirac cones, which, depending on the number of charge carriers, are occupied up to…
Project Starshot, an initiative sponsored by the Breakthrough Foundation, is intended to be humanity’s first interstellar voyage. Credit: breakthroughinitiatives.org Space travel can be agonizingly slow:…
First experimental realization of energetic ions driven by intense laser irradiating the world’s thinnest and strongest target. Laser-driven ion acceleration has been studied to develop…
New approach expands the application of powerful, ultrafast laser pulses. Quick bursts of laser light, lasting less than a trillionth of a second, are used…
Artists impression of laser-based communication between satellites. Credit: Northumbria University The UK Space Agency has awarded almost £650,000 to Northumbria University to continue world-leading work…