Researchers from NTNU and EPFL have unveiled a compact, low-cost laser that outperforms current models in speed, control, and ...

The past has never been more visible. While ancient ruins crumble under the weight of time, weather, and human activity, a ...

Using ultra-fast laser beams, a team from the Irradiated Solids Laboratory has designed an experiment that allows both the ...

Lasers have been around for centuries, and over the past few decades, humans have found numerous applications for them. For instance, the US Navy uses lasers to shoot drones out of the sky. You'll ...

Researchers at the University of Illinois have pulled off a laser first: they built a new kind of eye-safe laser that works at room temperature, using a buried layer of glass-like material instead of ...

When Darwin Quiroz first started working with optics as an undergraduate, he was developing atomic magnetometers. That ...

For more than 60 years, Asheville Eye Associates has been Western North Carolina’s trusted destination for vision care. But beyond preserving sight, their fellowship-trained surgeons are also helping ...

The technology hinges on what physicists call a frequency comb, a laser that emits many distinct colors, or wavelengths, evenly spaced across the optical spectrum. Each ...