MIT researchers discovered a paradoxical phenomenon in optical physics that could enable a new bioimaging method that's ...

At high power, laser light inside a multimode optical fiber is supposed to misbehave. The beam usually breaks into a noisy, scattered pattern as the light ricochets through many paths at once.

NASA tested laser communications from space with a video of a cat chasing a laser dot! Psyche beamed the video about 19 ...

The researchers want to better understand the fundamental physics of the pencil beam and the mechanisms behind its self ...

After a surprising discovery that overcomes a longstanding problem in fiber optics, MIT researchers demonstrated a biomedical ...

Scientists at MIT discovered that chaotic laser light can spontaneously form a highly focused beam instead of scattering—if ...

The Army-Navy effort aims to produce a containerized 150-kilowatt high-energy laser weapon to counter incoming cruise ...

If an alien in the Alpha Centauri star system were craving pizza, it would take tens of thousands of years to deliver it ...

A team of researchers from Texas A&M University has demonstrated the use of laser beams to lift and steer tiny engineered ...

A long-endurance uncrewed aircraft has been powered in flight via laser beam while conducting a surveillance mission during a demonstration on a U.S. Air Force range. Almost 1 kW of power was beamed ...

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A laser phenomenon from MIT transforms chaotic light into a focused beam, enabling faster, high-resolution brain-interface ...