Until a few years before her death, it was unthinkable that laser specialist Gisela Eckhardt, inventor of the Raman laser, ...

A team of scientists has made the first experimental measurements of laser-induced motions of miniature lightsails in the lab.

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Researchers have demonstrated a new, unsupervised machine learning approach to find new patterns in the auxiliary channel data of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory.

Researchers from Oakland University have made a significant breakthrough in the field of optical materials, unveiling the ...

Ultrawide-bandgap semiconductors—such as diamond—are promising for next-generation electronics due to a larger energy gap ...

Researchers have built a deep-ultraviolet microscope to study hard-to-analyze materials like diamond, offering a new way to probe their electronic and thermal properties at the nanoscale. This ...

A Wright Lab experiment capitalizes on simple physics to produce a groundbreaking technique to detect particle decay.

Some major news broke recently about net positive energy gain using lasers for nuclear fusion ignition. As exciting as that ...

Designed to transform how operators learn and master the art of concrete leveling, this innovative training tool offers a ...