Researchers at the UAB have developed a new chemical reaction to form solid polymeric networks using light (photocuring) ...

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Physicists at the University of Ottawa add an orbital spin to their laser beams to control the movement of electrons in their ...

This initiative envisions laser beams pushing light sails over a range of approximately ... Known as the "relativistic pinch effect," this phenomenon reduces beam divergence at high velocities ...

beam. Most of this scattered light is of an unchanged wavelength. A small part, however, has wavelengths different from those of the incident light; its presence is a result of the Raman Effect.