While it has become a word, laser used to be an acronym: “light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation”. But there is an even older technology called a maser, which is the ...

Recently, a research team from the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences successfully grew ...

Students in the class ENGRI 1100: "Lasers and Photonics" engage in hands-on learning and build a laser for an assignment.

A team of engineers and scientists has shown for the first time that a hard-X-ray cavity can provide net X-ray gain, with ...

IIT Bombay Engineering Physics: As the first Indian Institute of Technology to provide the Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) in Engineering Physics, IIT Bombay is renowned for having completely changed ...

Five courses in an approved cluster of technical courses for depth in one of several emphasis areas. Common options are computational, electronics, materials science, solid state, mechanical, etc.

Advanced mirror technology can reduce the intensity of artefacts in the output of high-power laser systems by a factor of 10,000, enabling significantly greater control in the development of ...

The ability to directly observe the extreme conditions in the hearts of stars and planets is still a way off. Using high-powered lasers, physicists in Japan are doing the next best thing — for the ...

This episode of the Physics World Weekly podcast features a conversation with the plasma physicist Debbie Callahan who is chief strategy officer at Focused Energy – a California and Germany based ...

PHYS 31, 32, 33, 34, 192 Four additional and approved physics courses (with any prerequisites), excluding PHYS 190, 198, 199 While there are many options for course ...