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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…
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…
A plasmonic laser is turned on (top) and off (bottom) by switching the magnetization of a nanodot array. The zoomed insets show the magnetic field…
A strong laser is seen illuminating a material in a low-temperature chamber. The laser is being used to change the material’s degree of transparency. Credit:…
A ring resonator. Credit: Yujia Yan (EPFL) The transmission electron microscope (TEM) can image molecular structures at the atomic scale by using electrons instead of…
Illustration of a microtube implosion. Due to the laser-produced hot electrons with megaelectron volt energies, cold ions in the inner wall surface implode toward the…
An atom laser flowing from top to bottom makes a “caustic,” a refracted pattern like that often made by light, as it encounters an obstacle.…
LCRD will relay data between the International Space Station and the ground. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center Conceptual Image Lab NASAEstablished in 1958, the…
Concept rendering of a digital cooking appliance that boasts dozens of ingredients and a precise cooking laser to assemble and cook meals using digital recipes.…
It is difficult to generate coherent visible light, like the light of a laser, that is intense for a short amount of time. An international…
Illustration of NASA’s Laser Communications Relay Demonstration communicating with the International Space Station over laser links. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center NASAEstablished in 1958,…