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

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.

If you scroll through social media lately, you’ve probably noticed something twinkling in the background of countless posts: ...

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, ...

The Light Stage 3 (2002) was the first physical set to use an array of RGB LED lights surrounding an actor to create an ...

Key TakeawaysScientists have used laser-excited thorium-229 to probe for ultralight dark matter, even without a fully built ...

Structured light, known for its high precision and noncontact advantages, is widely used in the fields of 3-D reconstruction and object measurement. The extraction of the light stripe center line has ...