Holographic plasma lenses could focus ultrahigh-intensity lasers
Interference patterns create robust lenses, simulations suggest
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Ultrashort visible light pulses made easy
New method uses a commercially available laser system to generate femtosecond pulses of visible light
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Topological insulator design makes 30 lasers emit as one
Array of vertical cavity surface emitting lasers (VCSELs) behaves as a single coherent light source
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Gain medium gives a boost to sonic crystal ‘saser’
Focused beam of sound could find use in a host of applications, including medical imaging and non-destructive materials testing
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Laser beams become visible in vacuum
New technique will make it easier to manipulate individual atoms in optical traps
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Moiré superlattice makes magic-angle laser
Researchers create a completely new laser design based on a graphene-like structure
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Table-top laser delivers intense extreme-ultraviolet light
High-speed nanoscale imaging should benefit from new instrument
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Observing the weather on brown dwarfs, powerful laser puts matter under extreme conditions
This podcast celebrates the UNESCO International Day of Light
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Free-space laser link beats the stability of optical clocks
Setting up links to satellites could create a global timing network, say researchers
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Breakthrough in laser-cooling antihydrogen could reveal why matter dominates the universe
Device that produces required vacuum ultraviolet light is created at long last
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