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

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

Using lasers as tweezers to understand cloud electrification might sound like science fiction, but at the Institute of ...

Researchers have found that under certain conditions, a laser beam can act like an opaque object and cast a shadow, opening new possibilities for technologies that could use a laser beam to control ...

Researchers built a computer that performs AI calculations at light speed in a single shot. The breakthrough can help AI ...

Researchers from the Department of Molecular Physics at the Fritz Haber Institute have demonstrated the first magneto-optical ...

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 ...

When an intense laser pulse hits a stationary electron, it performs a trembling motion at the frequency of the light field.

The standard model of particle physics has the curious underlying feature that no microscopic phenomena are predicted to change when they are hypothetically transformed in certain ways. One of these ...

Researchers used circularly polarized laser light to systematically probe the phase transition in which a topological insulator (TI) loses its quantum properties and becomes an ordinary insulator. The ...

Santa approves of most Christmas decorations, but he’s warning not to aim laser-light displays at the sky during the holiday season, according to the Federal Aviation Administration. Instead, people ...