Students in the class ENGRI 1100: "Lasers and Photonics" engage in hands-on learning and build a laser for an assignment.

Researchers have demonstrated that intense laser fields, particularly at low frequencies, can significantly enhance nuclear ...

Could a laser umbrella actually work? A nuclear engineer reacts to XKCD’s wild concept and breaks down the real physics behind lasers, energy density, heat transfer, rain vaporization, and why turning ...

Femtosecond laser-induced periodic surface structures can be used to control thermal conductivity in thin film solids, report researchers from Japan. Their innovative method, which leverages ...

A joint research team from the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) in Japan and Stanford University in the U.S ...

Researchers in the US have developed a new technique that could allow quantum computers ...

"It is this demonstration of a new law in laser physics that is most important in our research," Dr Runge said. "We have shown that E = 1/τ 3 and we hope this will change how lasers can be applied in ...

Understand the key differences in curriculum, skills, career options, research scope, and future opportunities.

Lucian Hand argues that physicists’ multi-disciplinary training makes them ideally suited for a career in the laser industry, where the challenges and opportunities vary almost daily (Courtesy: UAB ...

Fluor Corp. will provide preliminary design and engineering, and is negotiating the first contract, under a memorandum of understanding with an energy developer to build a pilot power plant using ...

Three researchers shared the Nobel Prize in Physics for advances in laser physics. The winners include a woman for the first time in 55 years. Strickland became the first woman to be awarded a Nobel ...