US team breaks power density record
Researchers create a focused laser spot with the highest intensity to date
Lasers feel the Z-pinch
A novel way to produce high-temperature plasmas
Femtosecond lasers aid frequency standards
fs lasers could help in next-generation optical frequency standards
Making atoms cooler
Cavity increases laser cooling rate by a factor of five
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Lasers overcome the Lorentz force
New approach could probe phenomena on attosecond timescales
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Scientists bring light to sharpest focus
Researchers create the smallest spot size ever with radially-polarized light.
Photonic crystals boost semiconductor lasers
Physicists in the US have made a new type of surface-emitting laser
Hollow fibre carries megawatt pulses
Optical physicists have made a photonic-band gap fibre that can transmit megawatt pulses
First light for one-atom laser
Novel device pushes laser physics to the limit
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Squeezed light breaks quantum barrier
Physicists have made an ultra-precise laser pointer with squeezed beams of light
