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Slow motion: artistic illustration showing snippets of motion of an antihydrogen atom in the ALPHA magnetic trap, before and after laser cooling. The grey tracks are before cooling and the blue tracks ...

New Haven, Conn. — Researchers at Yale and the Institute of Quantum Electronics at ETH Zurich have formulated a theory that, allows scientists to better understand and predict the properties of both ...

Second-order coherence measurements can unambiguously determine whether a light source is generating coherent radiation, that is, whether it is a laser. In a systematic study reported by Kreinberg et ...

Fine tuning: a new theoretical framework for controlling a system’s properties using laser beams has been developed. (Courtesy: iStock/Swillklitch) Laser light could turn a normally insulating ...

For the first time, physicists have used lasers to deep-freeze antimatter. In a new experiment, an ultraviolet laser quelled the thermal jitters of antihydrogen atoms, chilling the antiatoms to just ...

The program includes lectures of leading scientists (30 min.) and oral reports (15 min.) and poster presentations of researchers, postgraduates and students in the field of laser physics and ...

The objective of the research in the atomic and molecular laser spectroscopy laboratory is to gain knowledge about the basic properties of ions and neutral atoms and molecules, with a particular ...

Three physicists whose pioneering work transformed lasers from science-fiction fantasy into powerful tools were awarded the 2018 Nobel Prize in physics. Arthur Ashkin, a researcher at Bell ...

The 2018 Nobel Prize in physics was awarded Tuesday to Arthur Ashkin, Gérard Mourou and Donna Strickland for their pioneering work to turn lasers into powerful tools. Ashkin, a researcher at Bell ...

Three researchers shared the Nobel Prize in Physics for advances in laser physics. The winners include a woman for the first time in 55 years. Strickland became the first woman to be awarded a Nobel ...