The research team looked into controlling the group velocity of light pulses – in other words, the speed at which light ...

For over a century, physicists have acted according to the postulate that no object in the universe could travel faster than light, an integral part of space-time structure. Light year, or a velocity, ...

An experiment aboard NASA’s Psyche mission achieved “first light” by sending and receiving its first deep-space laser ...

Singer Nick Jonas left the stage in a panic during a concert in Prague after a laser light was directed at him. The incident occurred when a member of the audience aimed a laser pointer at the ...

NASA's LCOT (Low-Cost Optical Terminal), a ground station made of modified commercial hardware, has transmitted its first laser communications uplink to the TBIRD (TeraByte Infrared Delivery), a ...

The great potential of the laser for use in long-distance communication systems has been brought closer to realization by the development of large-bandwidth, low-power modulators ...

According to Mike Dunne, Director of the LINAC Coherent Light Source (LCLS), the laser is situated in the perfect spot in the Bay Area. "There's about a mile-long stretch underground in Menlo Park ...