New research by scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), in ...

Key TakeawaysResearchers have built a compact X-ray free-electron laser (XFEL) using laser plasma accelerators to generate ...

The Google X spinoff Taara is promoting a simple alternative to fiber-optic cables: Free-space optical lasers. Using over-the ...

Scientists have shown that light can interact with itself in bizarre ways—creating ghost-like virtual particles that pop in and out of existence.

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The interference of the scattered light is recorded with a highly sensitive camera depicted as a screen. Incoherent light ...

MIT physicists performed an idealized version of the double-slit experiment, stripping it to its quantum essentials. They ...

What does a 1060 nm laser diode do when it becomes the hottest property in a game of geopolitical chess? For defense ...

Until today, skin, brain, and all tissues of the human body were difficult to observe in detail with an optical microscope, ...