America’s Most Powerful Laser Fires Its First 2-Petawatt Shot
A view through the titanium-sapphire crystal that helps to transfer power into ZEUS’s laser pulses. At two petawatts,…
A single-photon source based on topological bulk cavity
Design of single-photon source based on topological bulk state Figure 1 provides a detailed illustration of the design…
Ultrabroadband air-dielectric double-chirped mirrors for laser frequency combs
Design of pump-DUT dimension and measurement procedure As shown in Fig. 2a in the main text, broadband illumination…
Achromatic beam deflector with electrodynamic phased arrays
Chromatic aberration in the beam deflector and its compensation Beam steering with LC leverages its anisotropic characteristics to…
Spin-orbit coupling in van der Waals materials for optical vortex generation
Figure 1a schematically illustrates the creation of optical vortices via spin-orbit coupling in the hBN crystal. As shown…
Peacock Feathers Can Turn Into Biological Lasers and Scientists Are Amazed
Credit: Pixabay. On a microscopic scale, the extravagant eyespots of a peacock’s tail are built like optical machines…
German scientists create material that never existed before and could transform semiconductors, lasers, and quantum technology
Researchers in Germany have successfully created a material that has never existed before, a stable alloy made from…