Try to fathom the power of 1 million nuclear power plants. Now, imagine there is a way to pack the equivalent of that into ...

Discover how Farsoon and beam shaping improve metal additive manufacturing with innovative laser spot configurations and ...

Scientists have found a new way to navigate beams of light through dynamic scattering media, such as the turbulent atmosphere ...

Laser cutting produces efficient, precise cuts with smooth, uniform edges in both small and large runs on materials up to 1 ...

An art installation featuring 30 laser beams in primary colors will shine from the top of the Space Needle Friday night.

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 ...

Alphabet is spinning out laser-based Internet company Taara from its “moonshot” incubator, hoping to turbocharge the start-up that provides high-bandwidth services to hard-to-reach areas in ...

The tool, known as MINFLUX, involves attaching a small organic fluorophore to a protein then exciting the complex with a donut-shaped laser beam. If the protein is anywhere beneath the ring, the ...

A second laser beam with a donut-shaped cross-section can deactivate the fluorescence in a ring-shaped area, leaving only a small central spot (smaller than 200 nm) still glowing. Scanning this ...