Physicists develop innovative technique using carbon-dioxide lasers to detect radioactive materials from safe distances for ...

Rather, as optics aficionado [Les Wright] explains ... To do so, they need to convert megajoules of infrared laser beams all the way across the visible spectrum into the ultraviolet, relying ...

In a discovery that challenges conventional optics, scientists have managed to make a laser beam cast its own shadow—a feat previously thought impossible, as light typically passes through other light ...

Christian Roos‘ research is focused on creating, characterizing and using entanglement as a resource for quantum simulation ...

Experiments using HC-PCF have taken gas- and liquid-based nonlinear optics to a new regime and ... studies to be undertaken with low-power laser systems. At the same time, the research has ...

But blasting high-energy cathode rays onto metal-coated samples in the vacuum chamber of a bulky and expensive instrument isn’t the only way to make useful images, as this home-brew laser ...

Conventionally, these systems use free-space lasers and optics, generating beams that are guided ... a miniaturized version of equipment used widely in experiments to deliver beams of light to laser ...

Experiments pioneered in the Department of Physics and in the affiliated institute JILA resulted in two shared Nobel Prizes in Physics in 2001 for the creation of ultracold quantum gases and another ...

In the near future we can expect to see many other groups harness the benefits of plasma optics across the rich field of ultra-intense laser interactions with overdense plasmas — for example ...

In this week’s Science for All newsletter, Vasudevan Mukunth explains a new way to detect radioactive materials using ...

Researchers are working to move cold atom quantum experiments and applications ... that researchers face is how to replicate the laser and optics functions onto a small, durable device that ...