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

An international research team led by Alexander Kuznetsov at the Paul Drude Institute for Solid State Electronics (PDI) in ...

In free-space optical communication scenarios, atmospheric turbulence distorts the complex wavefront of signal-carrying light beams, leading to bit errors and even communication interruptions. Note ...

Light technology is at the heart of many cutting-edge innovations, from high-speed internet to advanced medical imaging. However, transmitting light through challenging environments, such as turbulent ...

Researchers at the University of Basel have developed a new approach to applying thermodynamics to microscopic quantum systems. In 1798, the officer and physicist Benjamin Thompson (a.k.a. Count ...

When we first heard the term “random laser,” we did a double-take. After all, most ordinary sources of light are random. One defining characteristic of a traditional laser is that it emits coherent ...

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 ...

Federal money to allow U.S. and European collaboration to study coherent light sources beyond x-rays. Combining Rochester’s theoretical expertise with ELI Beamlines’ experimental skills. U.S. Federal ...