Scientists at the University of Oxford have simulated a way to summon light, seemingly out of thin air. Their work is quite ...

The future of imaging extremely small objects may come down to doughnut-shaped beams of light, according to a study from researchers at JILA and the Department of Physics. The study explored the ...

A team of scientists has found that the narrow beam ... something strange: a narrow green laser beam, when shot through a larger blue laser beam inside of a ruby crystal, created a shadow. "Laser ...

Near the starting line of this year’s Memorial Marathon, a massive laser known as The Architect will produce a beam of light nearly ... looks like it’s something out of a movie, like a high ...

Something in the ... She got a look at the mysterious light from above. Her first impression of what it could be was certainly understandable. "I saw the green beams of light in the sky and ...

Researchers at the University of Ottawa have found that using helical light beams in disordered solids reveals a phenomenon known as dichroism, which is differential absorption of light.

2023, "Optica") In the new study, however, Murnane and her colleagues decided to try something different. They didn’t make their shadow puppets using regular lasers. Instead, they generated beams of ...