Peacock Feathers Emitting Laser Light Explained
Anthony Fiorito, a senior engineering physics major at Florida Polytechnic University, was published as first author of a…
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…
Multi-stimulated far-UVC luminescence for solar-blind imaging
Design principles for far-UVC emission In order to obtain far-UVC ML in Pr3+ ions, a set of conditions…
Mindblowing spy laser can read text from almost a mile away
Scientists in China have built a device capable of reading letters only millimeters wide from over a kilometer…
Lasers Cool Down the Gravity Debate | Research & Technology | May 2025
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., May 26, 2025 — One of the most profound open questions in modern physics is:…
ZEUS Is Officially America’s Most Powerful Laser, With 2-Petawatt Blast
The ZEUS laser, tucked away (as much as a giant laser can be) at the University of Michigan,…
MINFLUX nanoscopy enhanced with high-order vortex beams
Principle of HO MINFLUX Conventional MINFLUX generally utilizes a first-order vortex beam as the doughnut excitation, which is…
Free-space high-Q nanophotonics | Light: Science & Applications
Khurgin, J., Bykov, A. Y. & Zayats, A. V. Hot-electron dynamics in plasmonic nanostructures: Fundamentals, applications and overlooked…
Engineers are Creating 3D ‘Optical Knots’ by Manipulating Laser Beams
While knots are typically associated with shoelaces or tangled cords, researchers have demonstrated that they can also be…