Alternate title: Interactions Between Light and Matter. Warning: Light and matter are both seriously complicated stuff. I am going to try and simplify this whole thing a bit so that everyone can see ...

Scientists have hypothesized for over six decades the possibility of observing a form of wave reflections known as temporal, or time, reflections. Researchers detail a breakthrough experiment in which ...

Rendering of the Laser Interconnect and Networking Communications System (LINCS) satellites. Credit: General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems WASHINGTON — After a setback in a laser communications ...

It's not at every university that laser pulses powerful enough to burn paper and skin are sent blazing down a hallway. But that’s what happened in UMD’s Energy Research Facility, an unremarkable ...