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Strong Laser Pulses Help Control Ultrafast X-Rays

Electrons get excited and begin to move when they are hit by light. The motion of these electrons as they pass inside and between atoms in a material could be observed with the help of ultrafast x-ray pulses. Controlling ultrafast x-rays is still a difficult process even though scientists have made improvements recently at making ultrafast x-rays.

22 Mar 2017

Controlling Surface Micro- and Nanoscale Structures Using Femtosecond Laser Pulses

The surface of a material includes minute micro- and nanoscale structures that cannot be seen by the naked eye. However, these structures play a big role in governing the chemical, physical, and biomedical characteristics of the material.

15 Mar 2017

Newly Developed Femtosecond Light Pulses Could Pave Way for Lightwave Electronics

An international research team has created configurable and extremely short “femtosecond” light pulses which can enable the future computers to operate nearly 100,000 times faster than the present ones.

14 Mar 2017

Customized X-ray Glasses for Unparalleled Concentration of X-ray Beam

Special X-ray glasses have been custom developed by an international team of scientists in order to concentrate the beam of an X-ray laser stronger than ever before.

2 Mar 2017

New Computational Theory Could Take Transmutation a Step Forward

Right from the Middle Ages, alchemists have sought to transmute elements. A well-known example of this is the long pursuit of turning lead into gold. In the modern era, transmutation has been achieved, however, on a minute scale with the aid of an enormous particle accelerator.

1 Mar 2017

Self-Assembling Photonic Crystals Miniaturize Optical Components and Enhance Laser Efficiency

Colloidal particles that are used in a wide array of technical applications, such as cosmetics, inks, paints, and foods, have the ability to self-assemble into an exceptional range of crystalline structures that are densely packed.

1 Mar 2017

Scientists Design Miniature Frequency Tripler to Access Inaccessible UV Spectral Band

A research team from the University of Warsaw’s Faculty of Physics, Poland, has developed a miniature device, called a tripler, capable of producing femtosecond laser pulses in the ultraviolet (UV) range.

27 Feb 2017

New Laser Technology Creates Color 3D Images in Liquid

Researchers have developed a completely new type of display that creates 3D images by using a laser to form tiny bubbles inside a liquid “screen.” Instead of rendering a 3D scene on a flat surface, the display itself is three-dimensional, a property known as volumetric.

24 Feb 2017

Researchers Use Laser Spectroscopy Experiments to Understand Atomic and Nuclear Structure of Radioactive Atoms

Researchers at the University of Jyväskylä participated in an international collaboration with research groups from five countries – Belgium, Finland, France, Germany and Russia, applying high-resolution laser ionization of radioactive atoms in a supersonic gas jet to probe the properties of heavy elements.

24 Feb 2017

Mid-Infrared Light can Now be Used to Detect Gases

Vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers (VCSELs) are a class of small, semiconductor-based lasers with the ability to emit optical beams from their top surface. VCSELs are predominantly used for gas sensing applications.

15 Feb 2017