News articles tagged with 'femtosecond'
A look into the interior of molecules
— 9 Jun 2010 17:00 | TechnologyFor the first time ever, a European research team has managed to use attosecond laser pulses to observe the motion electrons in molecules. This report is published in the journal Nature,…
Molecules in the spotlight
— 13 Dec 2008 16:26 | TechnologyA novel x-ray technique allowing the observation of molecular motion on a time scale never reached before has been developed by a team of researchers from EPFL and the Paul Scherrer…
Professor proposes to use femtosecond laser pulse trains to reduce decoherence
— 11 Nov 2008 20:44 | TechnologyIn a recent publication in the high impact journal Optics Letters, Svetlana Malinovskaya, Associate Professor of Physics at Stevens Institute of Technology, proposes to use femtosecond,…
Mobile terahertz devices
— 9 Apr 2008 11:53 | PhysicsEverybody knows microwaves - but what are terahertz waves? These higher-frequency waves are a real jack-of-all-trades. They can help to detect explosives or drugs without having to…
Ultra-fast, ultra-intense laser has clean-cut advantage
— 16 Mar 2008 11:30 | HealthMany people equate lasers with a sci-fi battle in a galaxy far, far away or, closer to home, with grocery store scanners and compact disc players. However, an ultra-fast, ultra-intense…
Researchers create gold aluminium, black platinum, blue silver
— 3 Feb 2008 08:40 | PhysicsUsing a tabletop laser, University of Rochester optical scientists have turned pure aluminium, gold. And blue. And grey. And many other colours. And it works for every metal tested,…
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