Discover how peacock feathers can generate laser light in a groundbreaking experiment by a Florida Polytechnic University student.

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A 20-year-old student at Florida Polytechnic University is a published scientist after he and his professor discovered peacock feathers can be used in laser physics.

Researchers in Switzerland and the US have developed a new theoretical framework for describing a wide range of lasers — including unconventional systems called diffusive random lasers, which had ...

Canadian professor Donna Strickland, American Arthur Ashkin and French scientist Gérard Mourou won the 2018 Nobel Prize in Physics announced on Tuesday for work in laser physics. Strickland is ...

How can light be used to cool atoms and molecules? How can light be used to cool atoms and molecules? Lasers are known to burn things, fix eyes, and dance on powerpoint presentations. But they can ...

Light still holds surprises—as demonstrated by researchers from the Ultrafast Phenomena Lab at the Faculty of Physics, University of Warsaw, in collaboration with the Institute of Low Temperature and ...

The work was done in the 1980s at the University of Rochester when Strickland was a graduate student in Mourou’s lab. Strickland is just the third woman to win a physics Nobel.

The physics of laser cooling isn't new-- even the Nobel for it is 20 years old-- but the possibilities opened by the development of those techniques are still unfolding and enabling exciting new ...

The CPA works through a consequence of the underlying symmetry in quantum physics: a process that occurs over time can be reversed as if time itself was reversed, by changing the direction of ...

This year's prize represents not just a single example of brilliant work, but generations of advancements that led to it.

SVSU said that its physics department does have a strong optics component so the new equipment will be a welcomed upgrade.