Granular detail: Femtosecond lasers were used to produce this multiphoton microscopy image of lung tissue. (Source: M L Groot, VU Amsterdam/Flash Pathology BV) Fibre-based femtosecond lasers are ...

Suggested Citation: "6 Applications." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2018. Opportunities in Intense Ultrafast Lasers: Reaching for the ...

Let it shine A new design for a solar laser seeks to minimize thermal lensing (Courtesy: Shutterstock/Johnny-ka) A new design for a laser that is powered by sunlight ...

Ultra-intense ultrashort lasers have a wide-ranging scope of applications, encompassing basic physics, national security, industrial service, and health care. In basic physics, such lasers have become ...

Thariq Shanavas is a fourth-year physics PhD student who works in the Gopinath Lab in electrical, computer and energy engineering. He was recently first author on a paper in the journal APL Photonics ...

Last year marked the 270th anniversary of Benjamin Franklin’s lightning rod — but it’s more than a relic of history. The Franklin rod remains in use today because the simple design exploits some ...

A donut is not a bun. From a mathematical point of view, they are two fundamentally different objects: The donut has a hole, the bun does not. A circle inside the donut around its hole in the center ...

Arthur Ashkin, Gérard Mourou and Donna Strickland share the 2018 physics Nobel for their work with lasers that have led to numerous practical applications, such as eye surgery. “The main practical ...

Three researchers shared the Nobel Prize in Physics for advances in laser physics. The winners include a woman for the first time in 55 years. Strickland became the first woman to be awarded a Nobel ...