Physicists are learning to carve laser beams into intricate shapes that can grab hold of electrons and push them with a ...

Laser ion acceleration uses intense laser flashes to heat electrons of a solid to enormous temperatures and propel these charged particles to extreme speeds. These have recently gained traction for ...

The Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, in collaboration with the Australian National University, Canberra has demonstrated a novel way of steering a beam of relativistic electron pulses ...

The peak intensity that conventional solid-state lasers can achieve is limited by the dielectric strength of their lasing media. However, the invention of chirped-pulse amplification (CPA) means that ...

Panasonic suggested that demand for copper microfabrication "has a high demand" for use with "automotive motors and batteries." As a release from Panasonic says, their demo "opens the door to laser ...

A pioneering method has emerged for manipulating laser beams using sound waves alone. These days, powerful laser beams are essential in scientific research, from particle accelerators to nuclear ...

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory engineers devise compound parabolic concentrators (CPC) that increase a laser’s intensity so that laser can accelerate particles so that they experience the ...

An international team of scientists headed by Dr. Lukas Bruder, junior research group leader at the Institute of Physics, University of Freiburg, has succeeded in producing and directly controlling ...

OSAKA, Japan--(BUSINESS WIRE)--On January 29, 2020, Panasonic Corporation announced it has succeeded in demonstrating the world's highest brightness blue laser. This has been achieved by using the ...

Light's shadow: Researchers showed that a laser beam can sometimes act like a solid object and cast a shadow that is visible to the naked eye. In the picture, the shadow appears as the horizontal line ...