Squeezed light breaks quantum barrier
Physicists have made an ultra-precise laser pointer with squeezed beams of light
Lasers tackle radioactive waste
Iodine-129, which has a half-life of 15.7 million years, has been transmuted into a lighter isotope with a half-life of just 25 minutes
Fast and slow light made easy
Superluminal light has been now been observed in a crystal at room temperature
Dawn of the cantilaser
A mechanical laser could pioneer nano-scale experiments
Read article: Solar surgery makes progress
Solar surgery makes progress
Researchers have improved a surgical technique based on solar radiation
Double funding boost for Daresbury
UK lab receives £11.5m for light source and £25.7m for science park
Making light of a difficult phase
A new technique can produce attosecond light pulses that could be used to control electrons
Nanowires approach the quantum realm
Researchers have made the smallest silicon nanowires ever
Read article: Nanowire lasers go electric
Nanowire lasers go electric
Scientists have made the first electrically driven nanowire laser
Plasma accelerators take shape
Researchers use laser pulses in a jet of helium gas in a new approach to particle acceleration
