MIT Laser Breakthrough Lets Scientists Watch Drugs Enter the Brain in Real Time
Under the right conditions, a chaotic mess of laser light can spontaneously self-organize into a highly focused “pencil…
Powerful Lasers Reveal How Matter Becomes Plasma in Trillionths of a Second
In the experiment, the XFEL photon energy was carefully tuned to match a specific electronic transition in highly…
Topological control of chirality and spin with structured light
Concept of spin-orbit interactions driven by beam topology Before demonstrating how topological structuring enables SOI in paraxial light,…
Orazio Svelto (1936–2026) | Nature Photonics
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Wild Experiment Suggests Lasers and Graphene Could Propel Future Spacecraft
An experiment on board a parabolic flight showed promising results suggesting that graphene, a thin sheet of carbon…
Single-shot, reference-less computational wavefront sensing for complex optical fields
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New ‘vacuum ultraviolet’ laser is 100 to 1,000 times more efficient than existing tech
The vacuum ultraviolet region is the area of the electromagnetic spectrum lying between X-rays and visible light. It…
Twist-induced orbital chirality in a photonic laser
The combination of two achiral photonic membranes into a twisted bilayer breaks mirror symmetry and induces non-Hermitian coupling…
New Laser That Slices Through Bone Could Replace Bone Saw in Operating Rooms
The modified laser cuts on a bovine femur. Credit: University of Basel, Catherine Weyer Conventional orthopedic surgery relies…
Sub-1-volt, reconfigurable Gires-Tournois resonators for full-coloured monopixel array
Concept of reconfigurable Gires-Tournois monopixels Reflective displays offer a compact and efficient design, leveraging external light without an…
Continuous-wave narrow-linewidth vacuum ultraviolet laser source
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Maximizing perovskite electroluminescence with ordered 3D/2D heterojunction
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