Until now, complex experimental equipment was required to measure the shape of a light pulse. Now, it can be done in a tiny crystal with the size of less than a milimeter. This can be used to study ...

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Imagine being able to shape a pulse of light in any conceivable manner--compressing it, stretching it, splitting it in two, changing its intensity or altering the direction of its electric field.

Scientists from Germany, Japan, and India have demonstrated that femtosecond laser pulses can force an entire layer of molecules to rotate in unison on a two-dimensional quantum material, a result ...

Researchers have developed a novel and compact method of shaping ultrafast light pulses. Imagine being able to shape a pulse of light in any conceivable manner -- compressing it, stretching it, ...