Students in the class ENGRI 1100: "Lasers and Photonics" engage in hands-on learning and build a laser for an assignment.

Researchers have demonstrated that intense laser fields, particularly at low frequencies, can significantly enhance nuclear ...

Could a laser umbrella actually work? A nuclear engineer reacts to XKCD’s wild concept and breaks down the real physics behind lasers, energy density, heat transfer, rain vaporization, and why turning ...

Lucian Hand argues that physicists’ multi-disciplinary training makes them ideally suited for a career in the laser industry, where the challenges and opportunities vary almost daily (Courtesy: UAB ...

Fluor Corp. will provide preliminary design and engineering, and is negotiating the first contract, under a memorandum of understanding with an energy developer to build a pilot power plant using ...

A large part of the analog world is focused on sensors and their related interface circuitry. In many cases, the physical variable to be sensed is obvious, such as temperature, pressure, vibration, ...

What occurs when you subject a metal renowned for its stability, blast it with a laser pulse only 45 femtoseconds in duration, and heat it to 19,000 kelvins but it won’t melt? Physicists had long ...

Understand the key differences in curriculum, skills, career options, research scope, and future opportunities.

Three researchers shared the Nobel Prize in Physics for advances in laser physics. The winners include a woman for the first time in 55 years. Strickland became the first woman to be awarded a Nobel ...

For physics majors starting EPAD track in the freshman year The Engineering Physics and Applied Design (EPAD) Physics concentration combines physics courses with applied science courses to create a ...