The idea of firing an intense laser beam into a thundercloud to induce lightning ... will allow a similar effect high in the sky. Nature Photonics spoke to Jérôme Kasparian about progress ...

His mind turned to his 60 watt laser cutter, and wondered if the desired effect could be achieved by ... This put the beam out of focus, which not only expanded the area it would cover, but ...

Knowledge of a laser beam's shape and output-power distribution is critical for optimizing laser performance. Neil Savage summarizes the latest beam-profiling products on the market. People using ...

that they have robust plans to manage the display and that those plans are put into effect. You do not have to have any expertise in Lasers to be able to manage the specialist contractor.

The effect was visible to the naked eye, followed the contours of the surface it fell on, and changed shape and position with the laser beam. The idea originated from a casual lunch conversation ...

For the first time, researchers have used high-speed laser writing to create lines spaced just 100 nm apart on a glass ...

Researchers developed a new optimized printing approach that could enable super-resolution 3D direct laser writing (DLW) of ...

Right off the bat, we’ll say that this video showing a laser beam stopping in mid-air is nothing but a camera trick. But it’s the trick that’s the hack, and you’ve got to admit that it ...

UC Santa Barbara researchers are working to move cold atom quantum experiments and applications from the laboratory tabletop ...

The effect occurs because the green laser increases the optical absorption of the blue illuminating laser beam, creating a matching region in the illuminating light with lower optical intensity.

so this effect must be accounted for when sending probes to Mars or other planets. But a higher-energy version of this phenomenon could use a ground- or space-based laser beam to push a lightsail ...

In a major breakthrough in fusion energy research, researchers from Imperial College London have captured the first-ever ...