Scientists at the University of Oxford have unveiled a pioneering method for capturing the full structure of ultra-intense ...

Scientists can now snap ultra-powerful laser pulses in one shot. RAVEN reveals distortions instantly, unlocking breakthroughs ...

The 2018 Nobel Prize in Physics was announced this morning "for groundbreaking inventions in the field of laser physics." This is really two half-prizes, though: one to Arthur Ashkin for the ...

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has awarded the 2018 Nobel Prize in Physics to Arthur Ashkin, Donna Strickland, and Gérard Mourou for “groundbreaking inventions in the field of laser physics.

A team of researchers has developed a novel method for using cholesteric liquid crystals in optical microcavities. The ...

Preceding laser tech from this line of work could beam about 10 laser pulses per second. But since lightning sparks on the order of milliseconds, Houard’s team know that they’d need much ...

Three physicists whose pioneering work transformed lasers from science-fiction fantasy into powerful tools were awarded the 2018 Nobel Prize in physics. Arthur Ashkin, a researcher at Bell ...

The very idea of a laser itself is still relatively novel, despite how widespread they are. The laser itself was only first invented in 1958. Originally an acronym standing for Light Amplification ...

A new law in laser physics In a normal soliton laser, the energy of light is inversely proportional to its pulse duration, demonstrated by the equation E = 1/τ. If you halve the pulse time of the ...

The 2018 Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to Arthur Ashkin, and the other half jointly to Gérard Mourou and Donna Strickland “for their groundbreaking inventions in the field of laser ...

Giant lasers help re-create supernovas’ explosive, mysterious physics. Pocket-sized blasts in the lab reveal details of massive stellar explosions ...