A small international team of nanotechnologists, engineers and physicists has developed a way to force laser light into becoming a supersolid. Their paper is published in the journal Nature.

A laser is a very thin, focused beam of light that heats and destroys tissue. Lasers can focus very accurately on tiny areas. Doctors can use lasers: instead of blades (scalpels) for surgery to heat ...

One example of successful opto-mechanics is the 60SMS laser beam coupler, which is used to couple into polarization-maintaining fibers. This demanding task requires very high precision and quality in ...