A concept of pulse compression in a plasma. Credit: Nature Photonics (2023). DOI: 10.1038/s41566-023-01321-x A new method of creating laser pulses, more than 1,000 times as powerful as those currently ...

If there’s one lesson to be learned from [Aled Cuda]’s pulsed laser driver, it’s that you can treat the current limits on electronic components as a suggestion if the current duration is measured in ...

The nickel-titanium alloy Nitinol has revolutionized certain segments of the medical device industry. Its unique characteristics have been employed to create a new generation of devices such as ...

The University of Michigan has announced that its Zettawatt-Equivalent Ultrashort pulse laser System (ZEUS) produced 2 petawatts, or 2 quadrillion watts of power during its first experiment. That’s ...

TUCSON, AZ / ACCESS Newswire / December 15, 2025 / Applied Energetics, Inc. ("AE") (OTCQB:AERG), a leader in ultrashort pulse laser (USPL) and directed-energy technologies, today announced the ...

Lasers have widespread applications as a light source in a variety of fields, including manufacturing, medicine, high-speed communications, electronics, and scientific research. In recent years, the ...

In a few picoseconds (trillionths of a second), a small, thin piece of copper momentarily becomes dense plasma, specifically a state called warm dense matter, warm being a relative term – the metal is ...

Shanghai scientists develop ultranarrow bandwidth mode-locked laser with a widely-tunable pulse duration. Shanghai’s ultranarrow bandwidth mode-locked laser. Click for info. Ultranarrow bandwidth mode ...

Researchers developed an ultranarrow bandwidth mode-locked laser with a widely tunable pulse duration, enabling controlled output, for various applications Lasers have widespread applications as a ...

Scientists from the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay have found a way to use light to control and read tiny quantum ...