Empire strikes back
The US Army Space and Strategic Defense Command has fired its Miracl laser at an American satellite orbiting 260 miles above the Earth. The powerful laser, an offshoot of the Strategic Defence Initiat...
Laser-cooled Nobel prize
Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, Steve Chu, and Bill Phillips have won the 1997 Nobel Prize for Physics
Bench-top support
That was the conclusion drawn by John Enderby of Bristol University who gave a presentation on “Experimental physics in the UK: problems and promise” at the British Association‘s sci...
US Star Wars test fails
(Updated 13 Oct)
Laser highlights
The many achievements and uses of the electron have been widely celebrated this year. Photonics has not yet had the impact of electronics, although the interdisciplinary subject of optoelectronics und...
Read article: Shifts in atomic understanding
Shifts in atomic understanding
Atoms subjected to intense, ultrashort pulses of laser radiation ionise in surprising and, as yet, not wholly understood ways, explain Pierre Agostini and Guillaume Petite
