A Würzburg team won the German Physical Society’s 2026 teaching prize for femtoPro, a free virtual-reality laboratory that ...

Researchers in China have developed and calibrated a Photonic Doppler Velocimetry method that turns laser-measured surface ...

Scientists from the Quantum Technologies Group at the Institute of Physics Zagreb, in collaboration with a colleague from the ...

Ultra-intense ultrashort lasers have a wide-ranging scope of applications, encompassing basic physics, national security, industrial service, and health care. In basic physics, such lasers have become ...

An ultrafast optical experiment measures a hidden electronic property that helps shape how crystals respond to light.

Scientists have developed a groundbreaking technique called RAVEN that can capture the full complexity of an ultra-intense laser pulse in a single shot—something previously thought nearly impossible.

Mode-locked lasers are advanced lasers that produce very short pulses of light, with durations ranging from femtoseconds to picoseconds. These lasers are widely used to study ultrafast and nonlinear ...

The 2018 Nobel Prize in Physics goes to innovators in laser physics responsible for optical tweezers and high-intensity, ultrashort optical pulses. Stretchy genes. Half of the 2018 physics Nobel Prize ...

Researchers use a laser to excite and precisely measure a long-sought exotic nuclear state, paving the way for precise timekeeping and ultrasensitive quantum sensing. Figure 2: The precision of ...

Gisela Eckhardt was one of the early pioneers in laser physics, discovering the principle behind the Raman laser in 1962. Valdas Pasiskevicius, Richard Mildren and David Burman tell the largely ...