lasers

With Just Light A Compact Electron Accelerator Hits New Speeds

With Just Light A Compact Electron Accelerator Hits New Speeds

Researchers used ultrafast lasers to accelerate electrons over a compact distance to speeds typically only achieved in particle accelerators the size of ten football fields.

Ultrashort Laser Pulses Enable World’s Fastest Two-qubit Gate

Ultrashort Laser Pulses Enable World’s Fastest Two-qubit Gate

This ultrafast quantum computer, which uses ultrafast lasers to manipulate cold atoms trapped with optical tweezers, is expected to be a completely new quantum computer type

Photonic Crystals Self-Assembled From Colloidal Particles

Photonic Crystals Self-Assembled From Colloidal Particles

Laser Cooling Chills Radium Ions For The First Time

Laser Cooling Chills Radium Ions For The First Time

Researchers have successfully used laser cooling on radium ions for the first time. Given that lasers are known for heating things up, laser cooling may seem a contradiction in terms.

Perfect Paraxial Cloaking Device Uses Lenses To Hide Objects

Perfect Paraxial Cloaking Device Uses Lenses To Hide Objects

A new cloaking device that breaks through some of the limitations of previous devices, using inexpensive and widely available materials has been developed at the University of Rochester.

The Most Stable Laser in the World will Help Develop Optical Clocks

The Most Stable Laser in the World will Help Develop Optical Clocks

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Gallium Nitride Nano-scale Semiconductor Laser is World’s Smallest

Printed Photonic Crystal Laser on a Chip

Printed Photonic Crystal Laser on a Chip