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 ...

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 ...

Fusion researchers are now firing energy bursts so brief that they make a human blink look leisurely. In the latest ...

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

Scientists at the University of Oxford have unveiled a pioneering method for capturing the full structure of ultra-intense laser pulses in a single measurement. The breakthrough, published in close ...

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 ...

A time-dependent electric current emits an electromagnetic wave, a basic physical effect exploited in telecom antennas. Transferring this mechanism to the ultrashort length and time scales of the ...

A new light source generates ultrashort infrared pulses at wavelengths around 12 µm with previously unattained peak intensity and stability. First experiments in vibrational spectroscopy on water ...

Physicists at the University of Oxford have unveiled a “pioneering” method for capturing the full structure of ultra-intense laser pulses in a single measurement. The breakthrough, a collaboration ...

Zapping lenses and sensors is just the beginning. The same technology behind the Laser Crazer weapon I describe in *Wired News *may ultimately be used to produce ray guns designed for "personnel ...