It would take hours to set up the perfect shot at the Texas Petawatt Laser facility. Once it fired, the beam released an ...

Thin films might not come up in conversation every day, but they are all around us. Take the metallic plastic films of chip ...

For the first time, researchers have demonstrated that a laser-plasma accelerator can reliably drive a free-electron laser ...

Light has always carried more than brightness. In this case, it also carries direction and twist. That mix may open a new ...

Jordan Roach uses a Raman microscope to examine a sample of U3O8 affixed to carbon tape on an aluminum stub. Roach uses Raman ...

Abstract: Summary form only given. We will show how it is possible to perform Fresnel-like diffraction experiments in thin films with this kind of partially coherent compact source. Soft-X radiation ...

Israel isn’t the world’s most popular country, except when it comes to military hardware. A country the size of New Jersey is now the world’s eighth-largest arms exporter with a record-breaking $15 ...

The Secret Service arrested a man on suspicion of shining a laser pointer at Marine One as the presidential helicopter was departing the White House with President Donald Trump on board, according to ...

Lightsails are a highly promising spacecraft concept that has attracted interest in recent years due to its potential to travel at near-relativistic speeds. Such speeds, which current conventional ...

Analytical instrument developer Anton Paar has launched the Litesizer DIF 500, a laser diffraction particle size analyser. The Litesizer DIF 500 is designed to accurately measure particle size of ...