Can light behave like a whirlwind? It turns out it can—and such "optical tornadoes" have now been created in an extremely small structure by scientists from the Faculty of Physics at the University of ...

This optical micrograph shows an array of microscopic metamaterial samples on a reflective substrate. Laser pulses have been digitally added, depicting pump (red) and probe (green) pulses diagnosing a ...

Ultrafast laser-material interactions are pivotal for advanced manufacturing, yet existing techniques often fail to capture comprehensive structural and optical changes simultaneously. In a new paper ...

For the first time, physicists have generated and observed stable bright matter-wave solitons with attractive interactions within a grid of laser light. Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest ...

Monday's Lasers In Manufacturing ("LiM") Plenary Session - one of the opening sessions of the LASER World of Photonics Congress at the Munich International Congress Center - considered a range of ...

Scientists at the University of St. Andrews, UK, say they are leading a "significant breakthrough" in a decades-long challenge to develop compact organic laser technology. While many lasers used for ...

Researchers have developed a laser-based method to turn natural leather into flexible energy devices, opening a new path for ...