Nobel-winning laser discoveries that lit up the field
Three scientists shared the 2018 Nobel Physics Prize on Tuesday for their work that has "revolutionised" the field of laser physics.
Optics & Photonics
Oct 2, 2018
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News tagged with optical physics
Coupled with light—two particles are better than one
So often in life we hear that size matters, in the world of quantum physics it really does.
Optics & Photonics
Jul 25, 2018
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Laser-driven electron recollision remembers molecular orbital structure
Scientists from the Max Born Institute for Nonlinear Optics and Short Pulse Spectroscopy (MBI) in Berlin combined state-of-the-art experiments and numerical simulations to test a fundamental assumption underlying strong-field ...
Optics & Photonics
May 4, 2018
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How can high-energy physics help the water shortage?
It might be hard to imagine what link there could be between a huge scientific machine underneath Geneva and a field of tomatoes in Lebanon but both need advanced technology to achieve their best results. Even if they seem ...
General Physics
Jan 23, 2017
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Metamaterials open up entirely new possibilities in optics
Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology have developed a method that enables them to manipulate light to follow any predetermined path along a surface. The innovation has now been described as one of the world's ...
Optics & Photonics
Nov 29, 2016
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Physicists reach lowest temperature ever recorded in solids using laser cooling
When most people think about lasers, they usually imagine them generating heat and even setting something on fire. But, for a group of scientists in The University of New Mexico's Department of Physics & Astronomy, lasers ...
General Physics
Aug 2, 2016
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'Exceptional points' give rise to counterintuitive physical effects
No matter whether it is acoustic waves, quantum matter waves or optical waves of a laser—all kinds of waves can be in different states of oscillation, corresponding to different frequencies. Calculating these frequencies ...
General Physics
Jul 25, 2016
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Collapsing energy bands to explore their geometric structure
The geometry and topology of electronic states in solids plays a central role in a wide range of modern condensed-matter systems including graphene or topological insulators. However, experimentally accessing this information ...
Quantum Physics
Jun 1, 2016
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Students track, observe damaged Hitomi X-ray satellite and its debris with optical telescope
Engineering Physics students at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University's Daytona Beach Campus have made several high cadence telescope observations of the recently damaged Hitomi X-ray satellite and several of its debris pieces.
Space Exploration
Apr 25, 2016
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Model aids efforts to reduce cost of carbon nanostructures for industry, research
A Purdue University research team has developed a simulation technique as part of a project to help reduce the cost of carbon nanostructures for research and potential commercial technologies, including advanced sensors and ...
Nanomaterials
Apr 5, 2016
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