Just as flicking on a flashlight reveals the objects in a dark room, pointing a laser at a cloud of gas can reveal a lot about the atoms and molecules floating in it. Zhili Zhang, a B. Ray Thompson ...

Laser-based manufacturing and materials processing technology has proven to be a well-established and cutting-edge technology ...

This Saturday, May 16, is the 60th anniversary of the first working laser, achieved by Theodore Maiman at Hughes Labs in 1960. At the time, one of Maiman’s colleagues, Irnee d’Haenens, famously dubbed ...

Laser surgery involves the use of a laser (which stands for light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation) for a range of medical and cosmetic procedures. A laser is a source of light which ...