Rochester, N.Y. - The University of Rochester's Laboratory for Laser Energetics is celebrating a new milestone. The school cut the ribbon on a new supercomputer on Friday. The supercomputer is called ...

A billion operations per second isn't cool. Know what's cool? A million billion operations per second. That's the promise of a new computing technique that uses laser-light pulses to make a prototype ...

Known for their ability to seamlessly integrate into semiconductor chips, VCSELs (vertical cavity surface-emitting lasers) are used in everything from computer mice to face-scanning hardware in ...

A research team has successfully developed a new technology that converts the conductivity properties of semiconductors with just one laser process.

Katherine Hignett is a reporter based in London. She currently covers current affairs, health and science. Prior to joining Newsweek in 2017, she edited a medicine industry newspaper and its ...

Record breaking: inside LLE’s OMEGA laser when it achieved its best-ever fusion yield. (Courtesy: Eugene Kowaluk/LLE) Inertial confinement fusion (ICF) experiments have been improved by a new computer ...

An “optically pumped” laser made of the alloy germanium tin grown on silicon substrates has now been fabricated by a team of researchers. The augmented material could lead to the development of fully ...