A new theoretical study finds shorter laser pulses achieve higher quantum efficiency for photoemission from a solid surface ...

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

Researchers in the United States have proposed a completely new kind of laser—one that ...

Nobel Laureate Donna Strickland calls her work a ‘laser hammer’, a breakthrough that delivers energy in powerful bursts. In ...

Part of our International Year of Quantum Science and Technology coverage Quantum-based gravity sensors promise a sensitive and robust way to locate buried objects, and they’ve recently taken their ...

Theodore Maiman, who built the first working laser, passed away on 5 May aged 79. Maiman made his breakthrough in 1960 by generating pulses of coherent light from a fingertip-sized lump of ruby ...