At high power, laser light inside a multimode optical fiber is supposed to misbehave. The beam usually breaks into a noisy, scattered pattern as the light ricochets through many paths at once.

MIT researchers discovered a paradoxical phenomenon in optical physics that could enable a new bioimaging method that's ...

Scientists at MIT discovered that chaotic laser light can spontaneously form a highly focused beam instead of scattering—if ...

The researchers want to better understand the fundamental physics of the pencil beam and the mechanisms behind its self ...

Discover how a self-organizing “pencil beam” laser could allow for faster and more precise biomedical imaging.

A new method in electron microscopy enables sub-20-picometer targeting of individual atoms without prior exposure, opening the door to atom-specific analysis and control. (Nanowerk Spotlight) ...

Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers discovered a paradoxical phenomenon in optical physics that could enable a ...

Electron beam method enables high-yield graphdiyne synthesis in seconds under ambient conditions, offering a fast route to carbon-based catalytic materials. But it differs in a key way: its structure ...