Over the past several decades, researchers have been making rapid progress in harnessing light to enable all sorts of ...

Nonlinear effects cause different parts of a wave to move at different velocities and distort the light's periodic sinusoidal pattern. These effects generate new wavelengths and result in what ...

Russia is building a new ground-based laser facility for interfering with satellites orbiting overhead, according to a recent report in The Space Review. The basic idea would be to dazzle the optical ...

When an intense laser pulse hits an electron at rest, the latter performs a quiver motion with the frequency of the light ...

For decades, scientists have sought ways to compress the tools of optical science – lasers, lenses, mirrors – onto chips that fit on a fingertip. Such ...

[Seb Lee-Delisle]’s NES lightgun gave us pause as the effect is so cool we couldn’t quite figure out how he was doing it at first. When he pulls the trigger there erupts the beam of light Sci Fi has ...

A flash of light hits a simple iron crystal. In the space of a trillionth of a second, its magnetic behavior shifts, as if the solid briefly becomes something else.

It’s a rare person who can pick up a cheap laser pointer and not wield it like a lightsaber or a phaser, complete with sound effects. There’s just something about the “pew-pew” factor that makes ...

In a new study published in Nature Physics, researchers have demonstrated that quantum light, particularly bright squeezed ...