Researchers have demonstrated an innovative technique for increasing the intensity of lasers. This approach, based on the compression of light pulses, would make it possible to reach a threshold ...

Physicists at Umeå University, in collaboration with researchers in China, have developed a laser made entirely from ...

Electromagnetic pulses (EMPs) generated during laser-plasma interactions represent a captivating frontier in modern physics. In these processes, intense laser beams interact with plasma targets, ...

Scientists are using an adapted version of VPIC, a particle-in-cell plasma physics code, to model the nonlinear physics of laser backscatter energy transfer and plasma instabilities in an attempt to ...

Study leader Andrea Alberti from the Institute of Applied Physics at the University of Bonn. (Courtesy: Volker Lannert / University of Bonn) Laser beams are normally invisible when they pass through a ...

Laser beams are usually hard to miss, but a new laser is notable for its lack of light. Steven Cundiff at the University of Colorado in Boulder and his colleagues built the device by modifying a ...

Dynamic switch: a switchable metasurface, tuned by green laser light, can block or transmit particular wavelengths of light. (Courtesy: CMP/ORC Southampton University) A new type of optical ...

Scientists Arthur Ashkin, Gerard Mourou and Donna Strickland have won the 2018 Nobel Prize for Physics for breakthroughs in the field of lasers used for surgery as well as scientific study. Arthur ...

ROCHESTER, NY AND TUCSON, AZ / ACCESS Newswire / June 10, 2025 / Applied Energetics, Inc. (OTCQB:AERG) (AE), a leader in ultrashort pulse directed energy and laser, is pleased to announce it has been ...

Engineering physics blends concepts from engineering, physics, and math in an effort to bridge the gap between theoretical science and practical engineering. Engineering physicists focus on research ...