Can light behave like a whirlwind? It turns out it can—and such "optical tornadoes" have now been created in an extremely ...
For the first time, a quantum radiation reaction in strong electromagnetic fields has been demonstrated experimentally by ...
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 ...
A new laser range-finding technique, inspired by quantum physics, that can measure distances under strong solar background ...
Scientists have achieved a historic first using lasers to study electron behaviour, revealing new insights into how light ...
Strong field laser physics investigates the interaction between intense laser pulses and matter, a domain where non-linear phenomena such as multiphoton absorption, tunnelling ionisation, and ...
KOCHVILLE TWP, MI-- Saginaw Valley State University has been awarded a donation of optical laser equipment by Gentec-EO, a worldwide supplier of instruments for the measurement of laser and terahertz ...
Tailored profiles: The working principle of the new metalaser. The designed geometric phase profile is introduced to the metasurface by rotating the hole in each silicon nitride nanodisk. Then the ...
The U.S. Army has walked away from its 300-kilowatt laser weapon program, the Indirect Fire Protection Capability-High Energy ...
This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American It wasn’t so long ago that I was in graduate ...