Read article: ‘Trojan horse’ injection method enables ultracompact X-ray free-electron laser
A plasma wakefield accelerator equipped with an advanced electron injection method could help miniaturize X-ray free-electron lasers to a fraction of their current size
Read article: Ultrafast laser camera images combustion in real time
New device could shed fresh light on the processes that occur as hydrocarbons burn
Read article: Molecular photoswitch could help create better anti-cancer drugs
High-precision X-ray crystallography measurements examine how a photopharmacological drug binds to and releases from protein molecules
Read article: Visible-light lasers shrink to chip scale
The first tuneable and narrow-linewidth chip-scale devices could find use in quantum optics, bioimaging and laser displays
Read article: Laser beam diverts the path of lightning strikes
In the first experimental demonstration of laser-guided lightning, researchers fire a laser beam into the sky to divert the course of lightning discharges
Read article: Defect suppression enables continuous-wave deep-UV lasing at room temperature
The first room-temperature continuous operation deep-UV laser diode could be used in novel sterilization systems and high-definition material processing
Read article: Laser pioneer Margaret Murnane bags 2022 Isaac Newton Medal and Prize
Murnane and colleagues developed tabletop X-ray lasers
Read article: Start-up company aims to build laser-driven particle accelerators
In this podcast we also chat about physicists who have won non-physics Nobel prizes
Read article: Self-assembling microlaser adapts to its environment
Self-organizing lasers could pave the way towards new functional materials for sensing, light-based computing and smart displays
Read article: New semiconductor laser delivers high power at a single frequency
Photonic crystal with Dirac point suppresses higher-order modes
