In a lab at Osaka University, physicist Yoshiki Nakata and his colleagues fired a pulsed laser through a stack of three ...

Nobel Laureate Donna Strickland calls her work a ‘laser hammer’, a breakthrough that delivers energy in powerful bursts. In ...

Plasma, the fourth state of matter, consists of a gas in which electrons are no longer bound to atoms, which allows ...

Van der Waals (vdW) materials are promising building blocks for next-generation nanophotonics because of their atomically smooth surfaces, diverse material families, and outstanding optical properties ...

Van der Waals (vdW) materials are promising building blocks for next-generation nanophotonics because of their atomically smooth surfaces, diverse ...

Computer chips that cram billions of electronic devices into a few square inches have powered the digital economy and transformed the world. Scientists may be on the cusp of launching a similar ...

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

By harnessing the unique properties of tantala (tantalum pentoxide), a team of US-based researchers has created a photonic integrated circuit that can be tuned to deliver laser light across a broad ...

Scientists may be on the cusp of launching a similar technological revolution — this time using light. In a significant advance toward that goal, the U.S. National Institute of Standards and ...

A team of international researchers, including an Aston University researcher, has cracked the code on how "breather" laser ...

For decades, laser engineers have wrestled with an embarrassing blind spot: the green-through-yellow slice of the visible ...