Laser plasma acceleration is a potentially disruptive technology: It could be used to build far more compact accelerators and open up new use cases in fundamental research, industry and health.

Scientists from Germany's DESY have come up with a two-stage correction approach to speed up electrons just like they do with ...

Laser plasma acceleration is a potentially disruptive technology: It could be used to build far more compact accelerators and ...

Scientists carefully positioned lasers to compress billions of electrons together, creating a beam five times more powerful ...

Researchers have developed a powerful new way to measure ultrashort, high-energy laser pulses in a single shot, solving ...

Femtosecond-long, petawatt-peak power beam could be used to probe previously inaccessible phenomena in materials science, ...

Alphabet is spinning out laser-based Internet company Taara from its “moonshot” incubator, hoping to turbocharge the start-up that provides high-bandwidth services to hard-to-reach areas in ...

Physicists at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory just created a petawatt laser beam with the highest peak power and current ever. This beam was formed from a bunch of electrons that were ...