Researchers from Bar-Ilan University have successfully recreated key features of black hole physics in a laboratory setting ...

A tiny silica bead, just 100 nanometers across, sits suspended in a vacuum and vibrates under the grip of laser light. Those ...

Ultrafast lasers tracked plasma formation and ionization in copper with picosecond precision. Results show rapid ion growth ...

Most machines that grow atom-thin films top out around 2,000 Kelvin. That temperature ceiling locks researchers out of an ...

A new theoretical study finds shorter laser pulses achieve higher quantum efficiency for photoemission from a solid surface ...

Researchers have developed a unified model that links two previously separate behaviors of “breather” laser pulses, revealing ...

If you walk across the open yard in front of the Physics, Math and Astronomy building at the University of Texas at Austin, you’ll see a 17-story tower and a huge L-shaped building. What you won’t see ...

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 ...

FELs require a bright and stable source of high-energy electron bunches, so today’s facilities are driven by large and ...

STOCKHOLM/LONDON (Reuters) - A trio of American, French and Canadian scientists won the 2018 Nobel Prize for Physics on Tuesday for breakthroughs in laser technology that have turned light beams into ...

For 26-year-old Dani, the quote on her ribcage once meant everything. "It was something about freedom and finding yourself," she says with a smile that edges toward embarrassment. "Now I just want to ...

It would take hours to set up the perfect shot at the Texas Petawatt Laser facility. Once it fired, the beam released an ...