While it has become a word, laser used to be an acronym: “light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation”. But there is an even older technology called a maser, which is the ...

Students in the class ENGRI 1100: "Lasers and Photonics" engage in hands-on learning and build a laser for an assignment.

Measuring conditions in volatile clouds of superheated gases known as plasmas is central to pursuing greater scientific ...

For the first time, physicists have generated and observed stable bright matter-wave solitons with attractive interactions ...

Researchers have published a new method of guiding lightning strikes using a laser. And another team of researchers developed a new test that uses dna as bait for respiratory viruses like COVID-19.

Advanced mirror technology can reduce the intensity of artefacts in the output of high-power laser systems by a factor of 10,000, enabling significantly greater control in the development of ...

This episode of the Physics World Weekly podcast features a conversation with the plasma physicist Debbie Callahan who is chief strategy officer at Focused Energy – a California and Germany based ...

The Space Science Center's Star Theater at Morehead State University is a state-of-the-art digital planetarium serving the surrounding area of Eastern Kentucky. It serves as a classroom and ...

Engineers have turned the physics of earthquakes into a tool for shrinking and supercharging the chips inside phones and wireless gadgets. By building a “phonon laser” that amplifies ripples on a ...