Extremely short pulses of laser light with a peak power of 6 terawatts (6 trillion watts)—roughly equivalent to the power produced by 6,000 nuclear power plants—have been realized by two RIKEN ...

Researchers have combined a fiber-laser system with recent advancements in multi-pass cells to create a laser with a unique combination of few-cycle pulses at high average power, pulse energy and ...

In a result that rewrites the textbook picture of one of ultrafast science’s most trusted measuring tools, physicists have ...

Electrons moving around in a molecule might not seem like the plot of an interesting movie. But a group of scientists will receive the 2023 Nobel Prize in physics for research that essentially follows ...

Researchers are making the cutting-edge field of attosecond science more accessible to researchers from all disciplines. University of Central Florida researchers are making the cutting-edge field of ...

Quantum mechanics is famous for the way that its predictions challenge intuitive human thinking developed through the way that we experience the everyday world around us. Among other things, quantum ...

Chinese investment in high-intensity ultrashort-pulse generation seems to be paying off with several groups reporting their latest breakthroughs at CLEO/Pacific Rim 2007. With almost 70 papers devoted ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. To catch a glimpse of the subatomic world’s unimaginably fleet-footed particles, you need to produce unimaginably brief flashes of light ...

A project involving Berlin's Max Born Institute, University College London and ELI-ALPS in Hungary has demonstrated a spectroscopy technique employing attosecond laser bursts as both pump and probe ...

In the same way that a camera flash can ‘freeze’ rapidly moving objects, making them appear as if they are standing still in photos, extremely short laser pulses can help light up ultrafast processes, ...