WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Terahertz (THz) radiation, a slice of the electromagnetic spectrum that occupies the middle ground between microwaves and infrared light, is rapidly finding important uses ...

Few-cycle pulses at wavelengths longer than 10 µm are important for fundamental studies of the non-equilibrium properties of condensed matter, i.e., solids and liquids, and exhibit a high application ...

To capture fast-moving action in a dimly lit environment, a photographer will use the combination of a fast shutter speed and a quick burst of light. Laser physicists employ the same principle – ...

This is in stark contrast to typical light produced by intense lasers, known as coherent-state light, that exhibit only extremely weak quantum fluctuations. However, for BSV, the fluctuations can lead ...

High intensity: Claudia Gollner and colleagues have boosted the energy delivered by terahertz pulses. (Courtesy: TU Wien) Intense, ultrashort pulses of terahertz radiation have been generated with an ...

When two laser beams converge on a volume of gas, their interference creates a diffraction grating made of plasma that can divert and shape a third beam. A key component of the researchers’ setup was ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A visual illustration of a bright squeezed vacuum—a quantum state of light characterized by an exceptionally high level of ...

Researchers at the Max Born Institute for Nonlinear Optics and Short Pulse Spectroscopy (MBI) have reached a new milestone in few-cycle pulse generation, breaking a 10-year-old record and achieving ...

Intense ultra-short pulses have sophisticated generation processes, complex metrology schemes and their applications are ubiquitous, spanning atomic-molecular physics, chemistry, material science, ...

Could a simple neck ultrasound be the key to an early dementia diagnosis? That’s what researchers at the University College London (UCL) in England are trying to find out. And they may be on to ...

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