Ultrashort laser pulses—that are shorter than a millionth of a millionth of a second—have transformed fundamental science, ...

Scientists create perovskite film semiconductors at room temperature using lasers, which is a revolution for chips and solar ...

The University of Rochester’s Laboratory for Laser Energetics has secured $5 million to advance short-pulsed laser research tied to national defense.

Electrons determine everything: how chemical reactions unfold, how materials conduct electricity, how biological molecules ...

Liquids and solutions are complex environments—think, for example, of sugar dissolving in water, where each sugar molecule ...

A team at the University of Stuttgart has engineered a compact short-pulse laser that achieves up to 80% efficiency—far surpassing current models. Their new multipass design reuses light within a ...

Researchers propose a novel scheme to produce isolated attosecond pulses using relativistic electron mirrors, paving the way ...

If there’s one lesson to be learned from [Aled Cuda]’s pulsed laser driver, it’s that you can treat the current limits on electronic components as a suggestion if the current duration is measured in ...

Ultrafast laser pulse characterization is a critical cornerstone in the field of photonics, enabling the precise measurement and reconstruction of optical pulses with durations in the femtosecond ...

Italian restorers have used laser beams to clean an ancient Roman marble column in the piazza outside the prime minister’s office, removing layers of dust and grime that had covered the monument for ...