Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Laser-like light that spans a wide range of frequencies is a powerful tool for science and industry. From semiconductor chip ...

Researchers have built a microscopic 3D-printed optical device that funnels light from 37 separate multimode semiconductor lasers into a single optical fiber, merging 222 distinct spatial modes; the ...

NVIDIA has announced a $2 billion multiyear strategic agreement in Coherent, an optical laser data company with a location in ...

Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) have created a new and unusual state of matter—known as a supersolid—by ...

Engineers at the University of Michigan and Intel have succeeded in creating the first practical, room-temperature polariton laser. The polariton laser is of extreme interest because it requires just ...

The vacuum ultraviolet region is the area of the electromagnetic spectrum lying between X-rays and visible light. It is ...

Scientists have developed a new approach to applying thermodynamics to microscopic quantum systems. (Nanowerk News) In 1798, the officer and physicist Benjamin Thompson (a.k.a. Count Rumford) observed ...

Researchers from the University of Oxford, UK, along with collaborators from the universities of Münster, Heidelberg, and Ghent, contend that replacing lasers with less complex light sources can ...

When laser light passes through a cavity filled with atoms, part of it can do useful work (for instance, charge a quantum battery, top), whereas the other part turns into “heat” (bottom). Researchers ...