The physics of laser cooling isn't new-- even the Nobel for it is 20 years old-- but the possibilities opened by the development of those techniques are still unfolding and enabling exciting new ...

One required EPAD Elective can be chosen from the following: PHYS 302 - Fluid Mechanics APSC 327 - Introduction to Laser Biomedicine APSC 428 - Scanning Probe Nanoengineering APSC 429 – Optical ...

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

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 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded this morning to three researchers for advances in laser physics. Arthur Ashkin, who spent his career at Bell Laboratories, took half of the prize for inventing ...

The 2018 Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to Arthur Ashkin, Gérard Mourou and Donna Strickland for having "revolutionized laser physics," as per a press release from the Nobel Committee.

Updated at 6:55 a.m. ET. This year's Nobel Prize in Physics has been "split" — with one half going to Arthur Ashkin, an American who won for his work with optical tweezers, while Gérard Mourou ...