Three RIKEN physicists have discovered how tiny tubes of carbon spit out light that is more energetic than the light shone on them. This finding could help to exploit the process in applications such ...

Detailed in a paper just published in the journal Optics Express, the experimental setup uses a tellurium-doped fiber laser ...

Atomic clocks are more accurate than those used to define the second, suggesting the definition might need to change ...

A new laser technique converts common dyes into conductive graphene, allowing circuits and sensors to be painted onto ...

Silicon photonics uses light to transmit data instead of relying on electrical signals, but since silicon itself can’t ...

Researchers at Imec have found a way to grow lasers directly on silicon Imec’s lasers use gallium arsenide, a material that ...

The speed of light is often regarded as the ultimate cosmic speed limit, but researchers have now managed to slow it down ...

Recently, the work was completed by the group of Prof. Sheng Meng from the Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Beijing National Research Center for Condensed Matter Physics. By ...

Recent satellite imagery shows a huge centre for laser nuclear fusion in the Mianyana mountains, in southwestern China. The ...

Scientists have taken a bold step toward understanding dark matter, the invisible force shaping the cosmos. Using atomic ...

Scientists have developed a method for generating fast, bright proton beams using a high-repetition-rate laser-plasma ...